Word: haddix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eddie Stanky's boys are probably the fastest, and certainly the scrappiest, team in the league. They are also the best-hitting squad in the majors, and their young outfield is so good that Stan Musial is currently playing first base. The team's pitching is slightly weak, but Haddix, Lawrence, Raschi, and Frank Smith should provide enough backbone. It will be close, but the Cards...
...Regular Solly Hemus a run for his position. For another $100,000 they have hard-hitting Tom Alston, a first baseman and the first Negro on the Cardinal roster. And they have an impressive list of seasoned money players: Outfielder Enos Slaughter, Second Baseman Red Schoendienst, and Lefthander Harvey Haddix, not to mention the one and only Stan Musial...
...fielded .976, led the league in triples (17) and drew 100 bases on balls, as a lead-off batter, was named the National League's Rookie of the Year, the fifth Negro in a row to win the award. Runnerup: St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Harvey Haddix, who won 20 games, lost...
...Louis (Haddix) 6, Philadelphia...