Word: clevelanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco shared his sentiment. Professional football's eastern title had already been won by the Cleveland Browns, but the Forty Niners were still in the race in the west. The city was full of loyal fans, desperate to see the game. The trouble was that Kezar Stadium can only accommodate 60,000 of them, and those who got shut out could not go home to watch the festivities on TV. Unlike big-league baseball, pro football does not give away what it has to sell, blacks out the local area when a home game is being played...
...Chicago White Sox swapped Outfielder Larry Doby, Pitcher Jack Harshman and a player still to be named for the Baltimore Orioles' Infielder Billy Goodman, Pitcher Ray Moore and Outfielder Tito Francona. Then the Sox sent Outfielder Minnie Minoso and Third Baseman Fred Hatfield to Cleveland in return for aging Pitcher Early Wynn and Utility Man Al Smith. In two brisk moves they shuffled off 182 RBIs (Doby, 79; Minoso, 103) and picked up only 87 (Smith, 49; Francona, 38), but they did get a good pitcher in the bargain...
Most delicate problem for the money-making Lassie team came when 71-year-old Actor George Cleveland (Gramps) died of a heart attack shortly before he was to be script-spirited away to the hospital with a broken hip. After consulting a child psychologist, Producer Robert Maxwell decided to have Gramps die onscreen of the infirmities of old age. At first the notion raised suspicion in Sponsor Campbell's Soup, which balked at the idea of a TV death based on life, came around only after Maxwell promised to expunge from the script specific references to death or dying...
...Chicago White Sox pulled off their second major trade in less than 24 hours yesterday, swapping Minnie Minoso, their righthanded power hitter, and infielder Fred Hatfield to the Cleveland Indians for pitcher Early Wynn and outfielder Al Smith. Yesterday the Chisox sent Larry Doby and Jack Harshman to Baltimore in return for Billy Goodman, Tito Francona and Ray Moore...
...Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. on a TV show that might whet the mathematical appetites of children around junior high-school age. Result: a pleasant, nine-part series called Adventures in Number and Space, now being shown once a week over regular TV channels in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland. Pittsburgh and San Francisco...