Word: genes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milwaukee has too much pitching depth for the rest of the league, with Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette, Ray Crone, and Bob Buhl as starters. Ernie Johnson, Gene Conley, Taylor Phillips, et. al. give the Braves strong second-line pitching as well. With Joe Adcock, Henry Aaron and Eddie Matthews to carry the offensive burden, in addition to about the best defense in the league, the Braves bear a "Can't Miss" label...
...carefree '20s came Gene Austin, asweet-voiced tenor whose story was evocatively told last week on NBC-TV's Goodyear Playhouse. Millions of televiewers had never heard of him, but other millions (over 40) had grown up and fallen in and out of love listening to him sing on records or radio. After thumping a piano in brothels around the country, then touring in vaudeville, Gene began recording, and chiefly between 1924 and 1930 sold 86 million records. Barrel-shaped but still velvet-throated at 56, Tenor Austin, singing the sound track, brought back the nostalgic old daze...
...Robinson knocked out champion Gene Fullmer with a left hook to the jaw in 1:27 of the fifth round to become the first man ever to win the world middleweight title four times...
...Middleweight Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Return match between Champion Gene Fullmer and ex-Champ Sugar Ray Robinson in Chicago...
Miler Zwirner and half-milers Dick McCready and Gene Shahan have all recorded creditable times so far this season, but Reider and Phil Williams in the mile, and Williams and Cairns in the 880 have done better...