Word: cincinnatis
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...Giants, going the distance in all five of his victories, two of them shutouts. With the team's right-handed power hitters beginning to get those couple of runs, the Dodgers put together an eight-game winning streak, won 21 out of 29, and pulled past the slugging Cincinnati Redlegs...
...Manager Walter Alston gave them an angry dressing down, called them gutless, and somebody leaked the word to sportswriters. Later, to a man, the Brooklyns denied that good old Walt had called them any such thing. That did not put the touchy word on ice. When a Cincinnati fan subtly applied the same epithet to the Dodgers' Centerfielder Duke Snider ("Whatsamatter Duke, you gutless?"), the Duke answered with a sharp, crisp left. Encouraged by a Cincinnati judge, the two battlers shook hands and made up. "But I still haven't got my two teeth back," complained...
...Reluctant to miss out on all the seat-selling notoriety, Cincinnati's General Manager Gabe Paul announced that Dodger pitching was a lot better than the rest of the league's batters seemed to think. Paul accused Brooklyn's Sal Maglie of warming up by firing fast balls at the Scoreboard clock in Crosley Field. The clock stopped. "Officials of the Brooklyn club are being advised of this act of 'senior delinquency,' " said Paul-and they are also getting the repair bill...
Team: Milwaukee (by 2 games) Pitcher: Lawrence, Cincinnati (12-0) Batter: Bailey, Cincinnati (.333) RBI: Musial, St. Louis (65) Home Runs: Banks, Chicago (22), Kluszewski, Cincinnati...
...Outmanned, outgunned and outfought, a lame and lackluster collection of American League All-Stars took an embarrassing beating from their National League rivals in Washington's Griffith Stadium, 7-3. With a line-up heavily larded with Cincinnati Redlegs (five of the starting nine), superb pitching by Pittsburgh's Bob Friend and New York's Johnny Antonelli and some acrobatic fielding by St. Louis' Third Baseman Ken Boyer, the National Leaguers led all the way to win their sixth of the last seven games...