Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the second game of the World Series last week, a wag remarked that it looked like a Two-Buck Series. Heroes of the first two games were two Bucks: Detroit's Buck Newsom and Cincinnati's Bucky Walters...
...opener, held at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, Buck Newsom was selected as the starting pitcher against Paul Derringer. Derringer is probably the smartest pitcher in baseball. But Buck Newsom, also known as Old Bo-Bo and The Old Showboat, was not alarmed. A cocky, 32-year-old righthander who had roamed the major leagues for ten years but had never wound up on a pennant-winning team, Newsom had told the baseball world before the season started that he would pitch Detroit into winning this year's American League pennant...
Next day, while poor Old Bo-Bo was mourning at his father's bier, Cincinnati's Bucky Walters stole the World Series show. After starting off almost as shakily as Derringer had, he rallied in time's nick, held the roaring Tigers to three hits, chalked up a 5 to 3 victory. It was the first World Series game a National League team had won since 1937. One masked hero of the game was rusty Jimmy Wilson, the Red coach, pinch-catching in place of crippled Ernie Lombardi...
...Tigers took the third game, but Derringer returned in the fourth to make good, evened the series at two-all. Then Buck Newsom pitched again. While his teammates routed four Red pitchers, Big Buck allowed only three hits, shut out Cincinnati, 8-to-0. In the locker room after the game, Old Bo-Bo's stiff upper lip let go. "I pitched that game for my dad," he blubbered...
...CINCINNATI--After 21 years, the Cincinnati Reds won their second World's Championship, by conquering the Detroit Tigers 2-1 in the dramatic, nerve-tingling seventh game, which saw Big Paul Derringer triumph over swashbuckling Bobo Newsom...