Word: mize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last-place club last year, the Giants began to slug this year for reasons that have eluded analysis even by themselves.** With extra-base hitting and little else, they pulled themselves up to a pennant-contending position. Their leading home-run hitter is 34-year-old First Baseman Johnny Mize, who has hammered out 36 homers. Right behind him this week were young Outfielder Willard Marshall with 29; Veteran Catcher Walker Cooper with 26; and Bobby Thomson, rookie outfielder who has hit 23. Infielder Bill Rigney, who hit only three homers all last year, also climbed on the bandwagon...
Brawny (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) Johnny Mize is -bearing down hard on Babe...
Ruth's individual record (set in 1927) of 60 home runs in a season. With a golf-like swing, Babe Ruth used to send the ball to towering heights, drop it in the bleachers or loft it over the right-field roofs. Mize, a competent workman with none of the Babe's color and crowd appeal, drills out line-drive homers by main force. This week he was slightly ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But to keep up with it, Mize will have to put on a mighty late-season spurt. In setting the record...
Some day, too, Sluggers Johnny Mize and Babe Young will come home from the wars. Meanwhile, Carl Hubbell's new farm system should produce some help. Whether or not Mel Ott can eventually build the really big-time club the Polo Grounds' potential million-a-year customers deserve is another matter...
FIFTH FLEET Ryan (Braves) 2b. Vernon (Senators) If. McQuillen (Browns)cf. Mize (Giants) Ib. Rowe (Phillies) rf. Brancato (Athletics) 3b. Glossop (Cubs) ss. Dickey (White Sox) c. Trucks (Tigers) p. Vander Meer (Reds) p. Klinger (Pirates...