Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...erratic seasons Rocky had been little more than a glamour boy with muscles for the Indians. Last year he caught hold, ended the season second only to the Yankees' Mickey Mantle in home runs (42 v. 41) and to Boston's Jackie Jensen in runs batted in (122 v. 113). This year Rocky is hitting better than ever. Like any good slugger, he can come alive at any moment, and last week, swinging with power and precision, he came alive. Fighting his way out Of a 25-game slump, Rocky drove in five runs to raise his total...
...team beat Milwaukee 9-8. In 1956, at the age of 20, Robinson broke into the Redlegs' lineup, promptly hit 38 home runs to tie the majors' record for first-year men, and made rookie of the year. This season, as of week's end, Robinson stood second in the majors in runs batted in with 102 (the leader: Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs with 1101), fourth in the league in homers, with...
...year in the majors. No mere flash in the spring, Killebrew is hitting with such power that he leads the league in both home runs and runs batted in, despite an anemic batting average of .249. With Rookie Bob Allison. 25. third in the league at week's end in home runs (27), Killebrew is the mainstay of Washington's new string of sluggers (TIME, July 20) that drew 12,198 to Griffith Stadium even as the team was dropping the final game of its 18-game losing streak. In other years, Griffith Stadium would go for months...
...thereby lining the jacket of General Manager Lane, who gets a bonus of 5?a head for every customer the Indians draw at home over 800,000. Through week's end, the Indians had played to 1,009,362, giving Lane $10,478.10 in nickels in addition to his salary of some...
...good to last. Soon the cracks about "Kathy Grant's husband" began to sound less like jokes than angry jeers. By week's end most of the Sahara crowd were coming around, not to laugh but to learn more about the Crosby clan's squabbles. Gary, the boss of the troupe, made sure no one was disappointed. "My father and I," he told a reporter, "just don't get along any more. Dad did some things last Christmas that I felt were far from right...