Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three home runs, scored nine runs, drove in nine more, and batted .467, as the Giants won six to stay in first place. To get Willie's smooth, uncoiling swing into the lineup. Manager Bill Rigney willingly put him on first base in place of another 21-year-old slugger: Orlando Cepeda, the Giants' leading hitter (.315), the National League's first baseman for both All-Star Games, and the team's most popular player with San Francisco fans. Puerto Rican-born Cepeda is roaming the daisies in leftfield, where he manages to hustle under...
Even without the help of these new stars the 1959 season would be one to remember. In both leagues the old champions were in trouble, and upstarts, emerging from their long shadow, were elbowing one another for a place...
...kids have meshed to produce a balanced ball club. The Dodger pitching staff, founded on the cross-fired fast balls of young Don Drysdale, has become one of the best in the league. But the Dodgers will rise or fall in the stretch on the play of three old pros, who are hustling like sandlotters. On third, Junior Gilliam, 30, is having the best season of his seven-year major-league career (.312), has been on base in more than 95% of the games he has started. At 32, Outfielder Duke Sniders hair is grey, but his steel-blue eyes...
They will need it, for Milwaukee's Braves are far from dead. After five players had failed to fill the hole left at second by Red Schoendienst, out with tuberculosis, Manager Fred Haney is finally getting some help from Bobby Avila, 33, the old Cleveland Indian, who knows what to do with the ball, even though he cannot go far to get it. Schoendienst may be back by September, but in the meantime Haney can more than make do with the men who won for him in 1957 and 1958: husky Third Baseman Ed Mathews is still hitting home...
...made Lane's new players fizz instead of fizzle was Manager Joe Gordon, the old Yankee second baseman, who had helped Cleveland win the world championship in 1948. Gordon has his high-spirited Indians playing a confident, aggressive brand of ball that is packing the fans into Cleveland Stadium* after years of declining attendance since the 1954 pennant. Backed by a long-ball attack, this whirlwind play has so far made up for mediocre pitching. (FastBaller Herb Score has never recovered his coordination since being hit in the eye with a batted ball...