Word: kiner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kiner, Pirates...
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...
Cincinnati has good pitching and a fine cleanup batter in Ted Kluszewski, but little else. Pittsburgh has Ralph Kiner and Chicago has spirit, but nothing else...
...groundkeepers at the Polo Grounds had to shovel sawdust around the mound to give Maglie some solid footing. He struggled with a wet baseball for six innings trying to keep his sweeping curve under control. He succeeded well enough: not a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, including Slugger Ralph Kiner, had managed to cross the plate. Maglie had little more than an inning to go to break the record set by Hubbell...
Going after a soaring first-inning smash by Pittsburgh's Ralph Kiner, Ted threw himself high and hard against the left-field wall. He caught the ball, and went on to play for eight innings, driving in a run and making another hair-raising catch. But his left elbow hurt. After the game (the National League won for the first time in five years, 4-3), X rays' showed why: Ted had been playing for eight innings with a fractured elbow...