Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your selection of Rocky Colavito was a good one. But a better choice would have been Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs, the finest clutch player in the game today. And that's a tribute coming from a Pittsburgh...
Splinters on the Bench. By most standards, the Yankees should beas far ahead as ever. Their fielding (.981) leads the league; their hitting (.261) is the best of the five top contenders. The one thing they lack is that patented Yankee authority in the clutch. Key balls dribble through the infield; key flies drop untouched. Yankee regulars have played like Little Leaguers before. But always Yankee pitching and that overwhelming Yankee bench made up for it. This year Stengel's pitchers have completed only 22 of 77 games...
Last month Premier Eyskens was abruptly summoned to the palace and told that Leopold's youngest son in the royal line, Albert, 25, was going to marry Paola Ruffo di Calabria, 21, one of the prettiest of a clutch of pretty Italian princesses. Everybody thought the girl a catch, but because royal marriages are affairs of state demanding government deliberation and approval, the Cabinet again felt itself insulted, ignored and affronted. Three days later, Pope John XXIII announced in Rome that he would perform the marriage himself at the Vatican, and let it be understood that there would...
...mile Indianapolis auto race started taking its toll early. Defending Champion Jimmy Bryan quit after only two laps, when his Belond Special, hastily rebuilt after a disastrous engine freeze-up only one week before, developed clutch trouble. Mike Magill went to the hospital with neck injuries after hitting the Speedway wall on the 47th lap. Ray Crawford hit a wall on the 121st lap, suffered broken ribs. But through the pile-ups nothing bothered 38-year-old Veteran Rodger Ward of Los Angeles, a onetime fighter pilot who had never finished higher than eighth in eight previous "500" races...
...entertaining Britain's late King George VI and now Queen Mother Elizabeth at Hyde Park. At Roosevelt's suggestion, the King and the President climbed into bathing attire, drove off toward a nearby swimming pool along a road lined with U.S. and British Army guards. Spotting a clutch of photographers with cameras at the ready, the King abruptly shouted: "Stop the car!" "Why?" asked F.D.R. "I don't think," grinned His Majesty, explaining that he wanted no photographs, "my people back in England would understand my reviewing the troops in my bathing suit...