Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made Lane's new players fizz instead of fizzle was Manager Joe Gordon, the old Yankee second baseman, who had helped Cleveland win the world championship in 1948. Gordon has his high-spirited Indians playing a confident, aggressive brand of ball that is packing the fans into Cleveland Stadium* after years of declining attendance since the 1954 pennant. Backed by a long-ball attack, this whirlwind play has so far made up for mediocre pitching. (FastBaller Herb Score has never recovered his coordination since being hit in the eye with a batted ball...
Married. Jack Westland, 54, Republican Congressman from Washington, who interrupted his 1952 campaign to win the National Amateur Golf Championship after trying seven times before; and Helen M. Geis, 42, assistant to new Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller; he for the second time, she for the first; in Washington...
Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.). Hogan ("Kid") Bassey, the Oxford-accented stylist from Nigeria, gets a chance to belt Davey Moore loose from his world featherweight championship...
...Louis. He later landed in jail after helping to hold up a restaurant. There Liston learned to read, met a chaplain who interested him in boxing. Liston studied Joe Louis' My Life Story by the hour, soon was prison champion, emerged to win the intercity Golden Gloves heavyweight championship...
Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.) Archie Moore, tireless tribute to his own gerontological genius, takes on Yvon Durelle for the light-heavyweight championship of the world...