Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judging from audience response, Gloria Film Co.'s Menschen in Hotel was a Kassenschlager (boxoffice hit). And to Gloria's greying, violet-eyed boss, Use ("Kuba") Kubaschewski, the payoff is all that matters. Hardly had the house lights gone down for the start of the show when the boss sneaked off to her theater-top penthouse to read more scripts, study attendance records, sign checks. At 49, canny Kuba is head of the hottest movie-production outfit in Germany. She has fought her way higher than any other woman in the movie industry-Hollywood included-has ever reached...
Both teams were good field, no hit; both had made a specialty of winning one-run games with deeds of derring-do (the White Sox 35 out of 50; the Dodgers 33 out of 55). The "Dodgers were counting on the strong right arm of Catcher John Roseboro to check Chicago's famed speed on the base paths, and man for man the Dodgers were actually faster than the go-go Sox. One apparent Chicago asset: their pitching staff was well rested, while the Dodgers' was still giddy-eyed and weary-armed after the frantic, final dash...
First Game. Opening the series in their own Comiskey Park behind burly, 39-year-old Pitcher Early Wynn (22-10), the no-hit White Sox suddenly turned robust sluggers while the Dodger defense fell apart in a horrendous, seven-run third inning. Centerfielder Duke Snider dropped one fly ball in a collision, later threw wildly to the infield. Trying to cut off the ball, First Baseman Gil Hodges slipped ignominiously and sat down hard on the infield grass, while Sox runners scampered around the bases. Scouting reports had assured Dodger pitchers that Chicago's muscleman First Baseman Ted Kluszewski...
...runs. But in the fifth, Neal grimly homered into the lower left-field stands for a run-the first time the Dodgers had scored in 14 innings. Suddenly, all seemed right with the Dodgers. An unknown outfielder named Chuck Essegian rose from the bench in the seventh to pinch-hit, swatted another homer. Two batters later, Neal came back to hit a 420-ft. blast into the White Sox bullpen for two more runs. In the eighth, stubby Third Base Coach Tony Cuccinello, the man who had flashed the go-go sign to the Sox all season long, sent heavy...
...Dodger Pitcher Don Drysdale had control trouble, but Catcher Roseboro saved him by gunning out three of the touted Chicago speed boys (Rivera, Aparicio, Fox) on attempted steals of second. With the bases loaded in the seventh, gimpy Carl Furillo, 37, came off the Dodger bench to hit a bouncing ball past the frantic glove of Shortstop Aparicio, and drive in two runs. The Sox threatened in the eighth, but confident Reliefer Larry Sherry, 24, who had preserved the second game for the Dodgers, stalked in to throw his curves and sliders, get out of a bases-loaded jam with...