Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia Athletics' pint-size Pitcher Bobby Shantz (TIME, June 23), over the Boston Red Sox, 5 to 3, to become the first major-league hurler to win 20 games this season...
Died. Philip Douglas, 62, outstanding pitcher (1919-22) for the New York Giants, who was banned from organized baseball for life; of a stroke; in Sequatchie, Tenn. Towering (6 ft.-4 in.) "Shufflin' Phil" scrawled an offer to go fishing in the middle of 1922's hot pennant race if the St. Louis Cardinals would make it worth his while. "I don't want to see this guy [Giants Manager John McGraw] win the pennant . . ."he wrote Cardinal Outfielder Leslie Mann. "Send the goods to my house ... and I will go home on the next train." Douglas...
...Pitcher Emil ("Dutch") Leonard of the 1952 Cubs...
Died. Hubert B. ("Dutch") Leonard,* 60, southpaw pitcher who fireballed his way to fame in the American League (1913-25), later made a fortune as a California grape-grower; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Fresno. In 1914, on the pitching staff of the Boston Red Sox (which also included Babe Ruth), he had his best season, winning 19 games and losing five, for an average of 1.01earned runs a game. After helping Boston to world championships in 1915 and 1916, he quit baseball in 1925, retired to his Fresno ranch, where he could sit in any room...
...year. Last week Robert ("Red") Rolfe, onetime New York Yankee third baseman, became the fourth to go. After 3½ years on the job, he was fired as manager of the last-place Detroit Tigers. New Tiger manager (with a contract for the duration of the season only): Relief Pitcher Freddie Hutchinson...