Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most remarkable relics in baseball. Years of catastrophe have put a permanent crook in the elbow. Under the strain of a game, the arm literally shortens two inches. Says one National League trainer: "You name it, that arm has it-bone chips, arthritis, a pathological condition, anything that can go wrong...
...sharply to catch an inside corner. Humming and hopping, his fast ball loosened up any Philly who dared dig in too firmly. When he was through, the Giants had won 9-1, and Jones had scored his second victory in six days to become the Giants' first 20-game winner (20-12) since...
...Take a look at this mug. What else can they call me?") is at his grim best against the Giants' challengers. He has five wins over Milwaukee, three over Los Angeles. What is more, Jones is willing and able to trudge in from the bullpen to save a game. Despite its long medical history, Jones's arm is plenty strong enough to stand the strain. It always was; his problem was control. Although he had not played much baseball growing up in Monongah, W. Va. (pop. 1,622), Jones developed such speed that Army Air Corps coaches turned...
...Throwing his fork ball with its usual effect, cold-eyed Reliever Elroy Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates stopped a rally in the eighth, but gave up two runs in the ninth to lose to the Dodgers, 5-4, dropped his first game since May 30, 1958, and snapped a 22-game winning streak. Cracked Face, as he regarded his 17-1 record: "Well, Walter Johnson lost...
Saturday is healing for the whole week. "The telephone is silent. I can think, read, study, walk, or do nothing. It is an oasis of quiet. When night falls, I go back to the wonderful nerve-racking Broadway game. Often I make my best contribution of the week then and there to the grisly literary surgery that goes on and on until opening night. My producer one Saturday night said to me, 'I don't envy you your religion, but I envy you your Sabbath...