Word: mize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week in Jackson, Miss. A federal grand jury indicted twelve politicos, including the leaders of Mississippi's pro-Truman State Democratic Committee, for peddling Federal patronage jobs to the highest bidder (TIME, April 23). Among those indicted: Clarence E. Hood Jr., former acting Democratic National Committeeman; Frank Mize, chairman of the pro-Truman committee and brother of a federal judge. The crimes alleged are both petty and sleazy. The committee leaders are accused of charging up to $2,000 for a rural mail carrier's job, and selling Office of Price Stabilization jobs that weren...
...first-rate players, and their two top pitchers have a combined '16-'4 record. Two rookies, Gil McDougald at third and Mickey Mantle in right, are learning new positions quickly and hitting steadily. The second base combination of Rizzuto and Coleman is fielding superbly and hitting around .310. Mize and Collins are sharing first base with good results. Yogi Berra is still the best catcher in the league...
Last season, at the advanced shortstop age of 32, the Scooter was still teaching himself a few new tricks. To get a little more power out of his 5-ft.-6-in. frame, he borrowed Heavyweight John Mize's big 36-oz. bat. It worked just fine; he finished the season with a .324 batting average, highest of his major-league career, and 50 extra-base hits...
Rickey's farm system produced such stars as the Dean brothers, Johnny Mize, Pepper Martin and the rest of the Gashouse Gang, as well as Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial in later days. But the St. Louis turnstiles never clicked as fast as the Rickey brain. He became a master at selling his stars, at the right time, for fabulous prices. He sold a sore-armed Dizzy Dean for $185,000 at the precise moment when Dean was through as a pitcher, unloaded fading, 29-year-old Ducky Medwick for $135,500, and reached into his farm system...
What had kept the aged, ailing Yankees in the race? Big, barrel-shaped Veteran Johnny Mize, 37, was one answer. Called up from Kansas City in the spring, he had hit 19 home runs in 68 games. Three other standbys were Sophomore Outfielder Hank Bauer (.341), Shortstop Phil Rizzuto (.330) and Catcher Yogi Berra (.323). They were having the best seasons of their baseball careers...