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...baseball swap, the New York Yankees talked the Baltimore Orioles out of seven players, including "Bullet" Bob Turley, one of the best pitchers in the American League. In exchange, the second-division Orioles picked up aging Outfielder Gene Woodling, weak-hitting Infielder Willie Miranda and seven other...
Gene Woodling, veteran outfielder went to the Orioles with right-handed pitchers Harry Byrd and Jim McDonald, shortstop Willie Miranda and two rookie catchers...
Despite such restrictions, the winter leagues manage to comb the majors for all the talent they can get. This month, as the southern season got under way, a traveling ball fan could recognize familiar names. The Yankees' Willie Miranda and the Senators' Con Marrero were playing for Cuba's Almendares. The White Sox's Chico Carrasquel was in Caracas. In Santurce, P.R., fans were being treated to the antics of the Giants' incomparable Willie Mays...
Sentenced to 75 years, with parole eligibility in 25 years, were Lolita's henchmen: Rafael Cancel Miranda, 25, Andres Figueroa Cordero, 29, and Irving Flores Rodriguez, 28. They had also been convicted of a graver offense: assault with intent to kill...
...three hustled off to jail were Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero−all members of the terrorist Nationalist party of Puerto Rico, the same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims...