Word: klu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), 35, could no longer pull the home-run ball to right. Big Klu promptly pulled two homers to right, drove in five runs. Final score...
...know who can't make an honor roll with the best of instruction and educational facilities. We think effort should be recognized. We think news should be printed. If these two convictions of ours soil the lily-white hands and Christian consciences of a handful of bigoted Klu Kluckers, they are invited to get the hell off our subscription list...
...Searching desperately for a power hitter to bat them into pennant contention, the Pittsburgh Pirates decided to gamble on the strong arms and weak back of the Cincinnati Redlegs' First Baseman Ted Kluszewski. Although a slipped disk kept Big Klu out of action most of last summer, and his batting average fell from his 1954 high of .326 to a low of .268, the Pirates took him in an even trade for their own healthier, steady-hitting (.313) Dee Fondy...
Without Big Klu to flex his muscles and frighten opposing pitchers, every club in the league picked the Redlegs as roundheeled patsies. They had not figured on Birdie Tebbetts. This season's success is not so much a matter of tactics on the field as it is a triumph of Tebbetts' psychology in the clubhouse. Maybe off the diamond the Redlegs will never learn their manager's supreme self-confidence, the positive faith that no man is his superior; maybe some of them sometimes settle for second best-say, in arguments with their wives...