Word: batters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Team: Milwaukee (by 2½ games) Pitcher: Surkont, Milwaukee (9-1) Batter: Schoendienst, St. L. (.344) Runs Batted In: Campanella, Brooklyn (62) Home Runs: Mathews...
Team: New York (by 11½ games) Pitcher: Lopat, New York (8-0) Batter: Vernon, Washington (.333) Runs Batted In: Mantle, New York (51) Home Runs: Zernial, Phila...
Johnson rightly thinks of himself as a "general manager"-he is, not in the corporate sense, but like the manager of a baseball team. He has to know who should pitch on what day, and when to walk the batter when the game...
...leads both leagues in home runs (19), is second in runs batted in (52), and is hitting at a .318 clip. Often awkward last year, Mathews is "a major-league third baseman now," says Grimm. Fleetfooted Outfielder Bruton (30 stolen bases last year), usually the Braves' lead-off batter (.273), ranges centerfield like a hawk. Flanking Bruton are a pair of old pros, Leftfielder Sid Gordon, 34, and Rightfielder Andy Pafko, 32. They are the only men in the regular starting line-up who are in their 30s, and the only ones with more than a couple of years...
...cocked righthanded. fingers flexing and caressing the handle, Mantle crouched at the plate and waited. As the pitcher went into his windup. Mantle dug his spikes more firmly into the batter's box, hunching his fullback's body (5 ft.11 in., 195 Ibs.) into a deeper crouch. The pitch bulleted toward him at something like 80 m.p.h.?a fast ball, letter high, over the outside corner of the plate...