Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Braves back in the running, but not for long; they were obviously outclassed. What they lacked, among other things, was someone like tireless Lou Boudreau, the Indians' manager and shortstop, the man who would be most remembered in the 1948 Series. He was not only the brain of Cleveland's keyed-up baseball organism, he was also the heart of it. Boudreau's pick-off play (catching a runner off base) was easily the Series' most spectacular play, and an example of his drill-order perfectionism. The first time it was tried, Boudreau tagged Runner Phil...
Thoughtfully shifting his cud of tobacco, John Sain wound up and fired in the first pitch. Big John, a boy from Arkansas, retired the first three Cleveland Indians in order. Whatever hopes the underdog Boston Braves had of winning the first World Series game were pinned on his strong right arm. At $35,000 a year, he was the National League's highest paid player...
Silent Bats. It went on like that for four days: good pitching and terrible hitting. Cleveland's brilliant southpaw Rookie Gene Bearden, shutting out the Braves (2-0), only twice let the count go to three balls on any Boston batter. Knuckle-bailer Steve Gromek, who out-pitched Sain in the fourth game (2-1), gave only one base on balls. The 1948 World Series was in danger of being remembered only for precision pitching. Grantland Rice called it the Series of silent bats. Disgusted fans and sportwriters complained that it was the dullest World Series in memory. What...
They got them on the fifth day, when the silent bats finally spoke. Boston hit three home runs, to the alarm of Clevelanders in the largest crowd (86,288) to watch a baseball game anywhere, any time. Boston batters, who at one stretch had gone 23 consecutive innings without scoring a run, got six in the seventh inning. They won the game, 11-5. Head down, Bob Feller walked to the showers, the first Cleveland pitcher to be shelled from...
...Sunday's game, the Series stood at 3-2, with Cleveland needing one more victory to cinch the Series. In the dejected Cleveland dressing room (the Indians had lost that day), a reporter found Boudreau, asked him who would pitch next day. "It'll be Bob Lemon tomorrow," said Boudreau. "How about Tuesday?" Snapped Boudreau: "There'll be no game Tuesday." There wasn't either. Bob Lemon, with the help of Gene Bearden, finished off Boston...