Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There'll be a baseball game at Braves Field this afternoon. Here's how it happened: Boston 801 001 600--11 12 0 Cleveland...
...while, it had looked as if Boston might have the series all to itself. Only one week ago, three American League teams-the New York Yankees, the Cleveland Indians, the Boston Red Sox-were neck & neck. The Red Sox thrashed the Yankees,*and then there were two. Jittery Cleveland needed only one game to win, and couldn't win it. On the last day of the season, the Red Sox caught up. The first tie in American League history called for a one-game playoff. Manager Lou Boudreau of Cleveland tried to put on a brave front: "It just...
Smart Promoter Veeck livened things up with fireworks, vaudeville acts, strolling minstrels, a playground for kids. This season, Cleveland set a new major-league attendance record: 2,260,627. And as fast as the money rolled in, Veeck peeled it out. His best buy: Satchel Paige, the ancient Negro pitching marvel...
What's more, the spirit between the two clubs themselves could hardly be said to reflect the highest ideals of Happy Chandler. Admittedly the Braves lacked discretion when they publicly announced that they would far sooner play with those nice boys from Cleveland or New York with the 70,000 seating capacities. But the Red Sex rebuttal expressing deep sorrow that Jeff Heath had broken only his leg when it might so easily have been his neck bordered on the boorish...
Thus it comes about that had the Sox snatched the pennant untimely from Cleveland's grasp, Billy Southworth and his tight-lipped little band of disciples would have taken a week of the most concerted and unjust verbal battering in the history of baseball. His magnificent achievement in bringing a second-division club home first, with room to spare, would have gone by unnoticed amid futile and prejudicial controversy...