Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Praise & Blame. Some Ikemen were heartened at week's end by the show of fight in his telephoned address to a seven-state gathering of Midwestern Republican leaders in Cincinnati. For the first time he blamed Democratic control of Congress, for lagging performance on such measures as federal school construction and civil rights. Republicans must win control of Congress, said he, "for it is clear that political responsibility can be definitely fixed only when one party controls both the legislative and executive branches of our Government...
Last week, in the sleeveless flannels of a Cincinnati Redleg, Donald Albert Hoak, 29, was the man whom opposing National League pitchers wished most they could knock down. He was near the top of the National League with a .358 batting average, running the bases with happy belligerence, and defending third base with almost errorless skill. Cincinnati has seen nothing like him since Third Baseman Billy Werber drifted in from the American League in 1939 and fired the Reds to two pennants...
...When the Redlegs got him from Chicago last fall, he was ready to quit baseball if he did not have a good year. "I'm not going back to the minors," he told General Manager Gabe Paul. "I don't want to become a baseball bum." Some Cincinnati fans suggested glumly that Hoak was a bum already-as a Dodger in 1954 and '55, he had looked poor next to Third Basemen Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson. Last year as a Cub, he was an unpopular and ineffectual replacement for handsome Ransom Jackson. He hit a piddling...
...National League, St. Louis downed first-place Cincinnati 9 to 6, thus reducing the Redleg's margin to two games...
Chuck Tanner hit his first home run of the season last night to give Milwaukee a 4 to 3 victory over Philadelphia in the 13th inning. Cincinnati defeated Brooklyn, 8 to 1, on a fivehitter by Johnny Klippstein...