Word: fellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National League, Outfielder Clyde Vollmer was no great shakes as a hitter. Waived into the American League, he started to break up ball games for the Boston Red Sox, fortnight ago knocked in the winning run in three successive games. Last week, Vollmer beat Cleveland (and Pitcher Bob Feller) with a 16th inning grand-slam home run. It was the twelfth game Vollmer had won for Boston, and left the Red Sox just .009 behind the league-leading Yankees...
Cloveland has waited out injuries to Luke Easter, Bob Feller, and Larry Doby. But its percentage has risen well over .100 points. Boston has replaced Walt Dropo in the lineup with Clyde Vollner. And Dropo never turned in such an exhibition of the utmost value to the team as Vollner has in the past weeks. But Boston's pace has been steady, on the whole, with minor spurts counteracting minor slumps. Chicago, of course, has slipped out of the picture in a sudden two-week debacle...
...Pitcher: Feller, Cleveland (14-3) Batter: Minoso, Chicago (.344) Runs Batted In: Williams, Boston (81) Home Runs: Zernial, Philadelphia...
...fried chicken as guests of cousin R. L. Vinson, a retired banker. Then came the ceremony at which a bronze plaque, bearing Chief Justice Vinson's mournfully dignified likeness, 'was dedicated. "The happiest day of my life," said Vinson.* Said a whiskered old mountaineer: "For a feller who started life in jail, Fred sure has gone a long...
...York Yankee Pitcher Allie Reynolds, in the third no-hitter of the season, over the Cleveland Indians, 1-0, on Gene Woodling's seventh-inning home run; in Cleveland. The losing pitcher: Bob Feller, who had turned the trick himself (for the third time) a fortnight before. ¶The underdog National League team, the All-Star game, with four home runs, over the American League, 8-3; in Detroit. ¶British Miler Roger Bannister, Britain's Amateur Athletic Association championship, with his best time ever, and best in the world this year: 4:07.8; in London. ¶Heavyweight...