Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Front-Running Indians. In the American League, front-running Cleveland was an odds-on favorite with the men who make book on baseball. Outpaced in the stretch three years in a row, the Indians were now playing the steady, workmanlike baseball of champions. Their first-line pitchers (Wynn, Lemon, Garcia) have turned in some of the best performances of the season. Onetime Fireballer "Rapid" Robert Feller, now grown gracefully ancient (he will be 36 in November), has surprised even himself with a fine 11-2 record. Rookies Ray Narleski and Don Mossi have been fogging their high, hard ones past...
Clearly, he has kept working. Behind the Indians' fine pitching staff, Wynn, Lemon, Garcia, Feller & Co., he almost always turns in a creditable performance. At the plate he is always a threat. In all pennant-hungry Cleveland, there is no happier sight than Al Rosen, firmly established in the batter's box. The ball steams in, his hips swing in a fast little shake, his left leg lifts for a quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby...
...Boston Red Sox yesterday took advantage of six walks in two innings by Cardinal pitcher Tom Poholsky to gain a 3-2 victory. Other exhibition scores yesterday were: New York (A) (Byrd) 8, Brooklyn (Palica) 2; Milwaukee (Spahn) 10, Philadelphia (Konstanty) 0; New York (N) (Gomez) 9, Cleveland (Garcia...
...Elizabeth Hardwick that few magazines would try out on their readers. The princess thought they were worth Drinting, and she was right. Poetry is another of the princess' passions, and Botteghe has it in abundance. It ranges from the pretentious, comma-plagued lines of Philippines-born José Garcia Villa...
Under the approving eye of Franco's High Commissioner Rafael Garcia Valifio, 430 tribal leaders - pashas, caids and ule-mas - signed and proclaimed a fiery petition pledging "unconditional allegiance" to Spanish policy, denouncing France and soliciting Franco's help in seceding from French Morocco. Garcia Valino thereupon rose and blandly castigated French "colonialism." and pledged his and Franco's weight to the Moroccan cause...