Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five hits. Sisler was erratic, giving up nine walks, hitting White in the ankle, and striking out only two, but only twice were the Tiger outfielders forced to score put outs. Only two of the Crimson hits and three of the Tiger efforts, in fact, went out of the infield...
Chipper Charley Dressen, a bustling, 52-year-old veteran who salts his peppery chatter with baseball's four-letter Anglo-Saxon, has some sound reasons for his optimism. He has an infield which matches or betters any in either league, both in fielding and hitting, a stable of booming hitters (see box) and, in Roy Campanella, the best catcher in baseball. Though his pitching staff is a little short of reliable starters, it is long on reliefers, especially when handled by Dressen's particular brand of managerial magic-a shrewd combination of coaxing and coercion...
Magneto & Crankshaft. On the 87th lap, Defending Champion Johnny Parsons dropped out with magneto trouble. A broken crankshaft put third-place Walt Faulkner out at 300 miles. Moments later, Mauri Rose, three-time winner, fishtailed into the infield with a collapsed wheel. The car turned turtle, but Mauri crawled out unhurt in the only serious accident...
Chicago is the same story: good outfielding, nothing else. Andy Pafko, Hank Sauer, and Frank Baumholtz are pounding the ball, but the infield has only one even faintly bright spot--Dee Fondy, the rookie first baseman...
Pittsburgh has devised a very peculiar infield--outfielders Ralph Kiner at first and Wally Westlake at third. Only Kiner and right fielder Gus Bell are hitting around .300. The pitching is dismal. It is hard to imagine who could crowd the Pirates out of eighth place...