Word: lewes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milwaukee's pitchers were even better than anyone had figured; Yankee hitters failed at crucial moments. The Braves' Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette had Yankee batters hitting impotent pop-ups and harmless grounders. Not only did they look bad at bat, the Bronx Bombers persisted in perpetrating boners on the baseline and afield. Seldom, if ever, had the New Yorkers botched a World Series so badly...
...Pitcher Lew Burdette will get his chance to wrap up a second straight World Series for the Braves in today's seventh game. The Yanks will decide between Don Larsen and Johnny Kucks, depending on the status of Larsen's sore right...
Spahn got better as he went along, justifying Manager Fred Haney's move in starting him over Lew Burdette, the three-time winner of last season...
...that a mark (sucker) got much for his money when he bought a ticket (50? for adults, 30? for kids) to Lew Alter's sideshow. It cost an extra dime to see the "Pickled Punk" (two questionable sets of Siamese twins preserved in formaldehyde), another quarter for a glimpse of Carmelita, the "Hermaphrodite." ("Ladies on one side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named...
...slowly disappearing. They have run out of rubes, and they are about to run out of towns. "I just think show business is dying out," says Colonel Alter's wife Helen. "You can't get good freaks any more. Seems like they're all dying off." Lew agrees. "They take 'em and put 'em in an institution now," he moans. "They don't went 'em exposed. Now I ain't going to mention any names, but I know an insane asylum where there's three good pinheads right...