Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apart in the season's last few days, the Cleveland Indians got by on pitching alone and almost ran off with the race. Ted Williams came back to baseball and the Boston Red Sox got into the scramble for the lead. In Chicago the White Sox caught fire. Detroit with its hothanded kids-Kaline, Kuenn and Tuttle-was always tough...
Last week Fifth Place Detroit did Casey a three-fold favor: they swept a three-game series with the Indians and tumbled them from the lead. Suddenly, after almost two weeks of league-leading ball the Indians fell apart. Their crack pitchers started throwing games away. Lemon, alone, gave up eleven hits in eight innings. Third Baseman Al Rosen made a miserable batting slump worse by stranding five runners in a game that saw his teammates leave another ten men on base. Gratefully, the Yankees made their lead even larger by knocking over the dangerous Red Sox in three straight...
...three straight heats of the President's Cup speedboat regatta on the Potomac River, three-time cup winner Miss Pepsi, driven by Detroit's Chuck Thompson, finished first. But on the final dash, Miss Pepsi crossed the starting line two seconds ahead of the gun and was disqualified. Winner on points (after finishing third in the final heat): Tempo VII, driven by Danny Foster and owned by Band Leader Guy Lombardo...
CHRYSLER COMEBACK will be pushed by one of the biggest expansion programs in auto history. President L. L. Colbert said that the company lost sales in 1955 because it was "not geared" to produce enough. So it will add seven regional plants and expand Detroit production over a ten-year period...
...Chicago 72 81 .471 26 St. Louis 68 86 .442 30 1/2 Pittsburgh 60 94 .390 38 1/2 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. GB. New York 96 58 .623 --- Cleveland 93 61 .604 3 Chicago 91 63 .591 5 Boston 84 70 .545 12 Detroit 79 75 .513 17 Kansas City 68 91 .409 32 1/2 Baltimore 57 97 .370 39 Washington...