Word: clevelanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocky Colavito, home-run hitter for the Cleveland Indians, is a favorite with the fans for more than his hitting because...
Castro's man was Major William Morgan, of Cleveland, Ohio, who did stockade time in the U.S. Army, earned his Cuban rank fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista last year in the central Cuban mountains of Las Villas province (in a minor revolt parallel to Castro's Sierra Maestra campaign). Approached by anti-Castro Cubans in March. Morgan went to Castro. On Castro's orders. Morgan joined the plot, brought in some fellow officers and even set up his luxurious Havana home, a prize of war, as the meeting place...
...American League the White Sox have already drawn 76,000 more than they did in all of 1958, and in Cleveland, attendance has doubled, is a whopping 346,000 ahead of last year's final figure of 663,805. In the National League, the San Francisco Giants have been playing Seals Stadium (cap. 23,000) to an average of 18,000 all year long, and the Los Angeles Dodgers drew 120,000 in two big games with the Milwaukee Braves during their last home stand...
...Power Man. In Cleveland, the new star is a tall, trim (6 ft. 3 in., 190 Ibs.), swarthily handsome rightfielder, who makes the bobby-soxers squeal, pulls seasoned fans into Cleveland Stadium two hours early to watch him take his cuts in the batting cage. When he comes to the plate during a game, the stands fall silent and candy butchers ignore customers to steal a look. Rocco Domenico Colavito, just turned 26, stirs excitement every time he picks up his medium (33 oz.) bat, paws with his right foot in the box until he is rooted like...
...Belle downhearted? Not in the least. She had the baby, wrote a book, married a millionaire from Cleveland, later switched to the middle-aged son of a British banker and ran through his fortune in about a dozen years. "Belle." he said gently one day, "we have no more money." Gently, she left him. Before the year was out she was consorting with streetwalkers in London's slums and sleeping at night on the Thames Embankment...