Word: full
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disappointing season for the Redlegs. An all-star high school pitcher in Oakland, Calif., Pinson has a sprinter's speed going to first (3.3 sec.), enough power to hit his share of home runs despite his lithe build (15 ft. 11 in., 170 Ibs.). Playing his first full season in the majors, Pinson leads the team in hitting (.328) and stolen bases (17), simply outruns deep fly balls. Says Manager Freddy Hutchinson: "He's already got Willie Mays' range." Robinson is so painfully shy that he has little to say even around his Redleg teammates...
...Washington's bright young (23) bruiser Harmon Killebrew is a sensation of the season in his first full playing 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...
Last year the Dodgers finished seventh, 21 full games from the top. But this year the Dodger veterans and kids have meshed to produce a balanced ball club. The Dodger pitching staff, founded on the cross-fired fast balls of young Don Drysdale, has become one of the best in the league. But the Dodgers will rise or fall in the stretch on the play of three old pros, who are hustling like sandlotters. On third, Junior Gilliam, 30, is having the best season of his seven-year major-league career (.312), has been on base in more than...
...west side with his pretty, dark-haired wife Carmen, 23. and their two children, Rocco, 3, and Marisa, 15 months. In the winter they move back to their home in Temple, Pa., where Rocky met Carmen in 1953 while playing with nearby Reading. There they keep a jewelry box full of religious medals that fans have sent to Rocky, a Roman Catholic, during his periodic slumps...
...pace and are expected to complete the changeover to 1960 model production in three to four weeks, one of the shortest periods on record. With the finish of 1959 car production scheduled for the end of this month. 1960 models will roll out in volume by mid-September, a full month ahead...