Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts, ignored by one and all (including the low and callous Boston sports scribes), speak for themselves. Boston has the best left-fielder and batsman in baseball, Ted Williams, the best rightfielder in baseball, Jackie Jensen, the best third baseman in baseball, Frank Malzone, the finest clutch performer and general handyman in the league, Pete Runnels, plus a large number of reliable sidemen...
...most important of all, the Red Sox pitching will be much improved over last year. Tom Brewer should win 20 games, big Frank Sullivan might also approach that total, and strong work should be expected from the surprise of the '58 season, Ike Delock. Frank Bauman, long a disappointment to Boston fans, has shown considerable improvement this Spring, and he might well develop into the Sox' first left-hander since Mel Parnell's departure. Couple these four with such promising players is Bill Monbouquette, Ted Bowsfield, Dave Sisler, and Herb Moford and you have a staff which should...
...Happy Chandler of Kentucky will recall his days as baseball commissioner when he opens the National League season in Cincinnati this afternoon. Frank Thomas will be playing for the Reds against his old teammates, the Pirates...
Miler Fred Howard and Dave Brahms, in the middle distances, continued their upward trend in performance which first showed in the Heptagonals, where Brahms ran a 1:57 leg in the two-mile relay and Howard came from nowhere to take fifth in the mile. Frank Yeomans gave indications of becoming a definite threat in the sprints...
DeSapio reportedly secured the Democratic Senatorial nomination for District Attorney Frank Hogan over the objections of Harriman and Mayor Wagner, who both allegedly preferred either Thomas K. Finletter, former Secretary of the Air Force, or Thomas E. Murray, former Atomic Energy Commissioner...