Word: foxx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his long, righthanded swing, Rocky Colavito is the power man behind the Indians, a long-ball hitter in the tradition of Ruth and Foxx and DiMaggio, a player who can hold the crowd enthralled because every time he goes to bat he sets the scene for baseball's most dramatic moment: the home...
...late '20s, with a team that included such superlative players as Al Simmons, Lefty Grove, Jimmy Foxx and Mickey Cochrane, Mr. Mack worked his way back toward the top. In '29, '30 and '31 he won his last three pennants. This time the Depression forced him to break up his team. Not until 1948 did the hapless A's get back in the first division. By then, even Mr. Mack's players paid less and less attention to his frantic scorecard signals; Al Simmons called most of the plays from his third-base coaching...
...Assisstant Dean of Freshmen, spoke on "Individualism of Harvard." In 1934 the speeches of President Conant and of F. Skiddy von Stade jr., secretary-treasurer of his class, shared the spotlight with Bill Cunningham, Rabbit Marenville, and Rudy Valle. In the next year, President Conant gave way to Jimmy Foxx...
...Baseball writers began an early warm-up for next season's campaign by electing Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra the Most Valuable Player in the American League for the second year in a row and the third time in his career. Other three-time American League winners: Jimmy Foxx, of the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox, and the Yankees' Joe DiMaggio...
From the U.S. he imported such big-league stars as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx, reported every move they made in Yomiuri. On one tour Ruth hit 18 home runs. Says Shoriki: "Every smack boosted circulation." (Later. Shoriki started the Japanese baseball league, now led by his own Yomiuri Giants.) From the U.S. he also imported the moneymaking journalistic ideas of his good friend, the late William Randolph Hearst...