Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Senator watching the cricket match that gives The Final Test its name describes one of the game's incidents as a high pop fly to the infield. But he could well be describing both pictures now at the Kenmore; not in a long time has such impressive talent combined in so disappointing an evening...
...World Series were 9 to 5. After a long, loud summer, second-guessing Managers Leo Durocher and Al Lopez, the nation's sportswriters, smart-money boys and Sunday-afternoon bleacher jockeys all had an easy explanation: Cleveland's pitching was too good. Even with their patchwork infield, the Indians had won 111 games. How could they lose a short series...
Record of His Own. Willie the Wonder had long since stopped swinging for the fences. In the last weeks of the season he had been walloping hits through the infield with increasing regularity, hitting the ball wherever it was pitched. Puzzled pitchers could scarcely sneak a bad ball past him; he was turning into the best bad-ball batter since the great Ducky Medwick. His average climbed steadily...
...stranger scrambling for second place: the Milwaukee Braves. Two months ago the Braves had been out of sight, 15 games back. Then, winning three out of every four games, they leapfrogged over the aging Dodgers and drew a bead on the Giants. The Braves have a tight infield, good pitching, and a magician of their own-former Giant Bobby Thomson, who hit baseball's most famed home run: a ninthinning playoff blast against the Dodgers to win the 1951 pennant for New York. At week's end, facing a crucial three-game series with the Giants, the Braves...
...Between 1901, when the American League was founded, and 1950, when he finally stepped down as manager, the Grand Old Man of Baseball won nine pennants. But even when the team was winning, there were empty seats in the ballpark. In 1914 Connie broke up his famous $100,000 infield ("Home-Run" Baker, Jack Barry, Eddie Collins and Stuffy Mclnnis) for ready cash...