Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATIONAL LEAGUE Team: Brooklyn (by 14 games) Pitcher: Newcombe, Brooklyn (19-4) Batter: Ashburn, Philadelphia (.336) Runs Batted In: Snider, Brooklyn (128) Home Runs: Kluszewski, Cincinnati...
...Using all his carefully controlled skill against the league-leading Dodgers, Robin Roberts, best right-hander of the feeble fourth-place Phillies, beat big Don Newcombe, 3-2, and became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this season...
...virtual tie.* Now it was the Indians, Yankees, White Sox and Red Sox scrambling for the flag. Their four managers were on the spot. Each one was expected to win; each one was looking wildly for help. There was a chance for each of them, and a single new pitcher or long-ball hitter or sure-handed infielder could make a big difference...
...White Sox, staggered by the temporary loss (appendectomy) of 13-game-winning Pitcher Dick Donovan, might well find that man in aging (32) Connie Johnson. A righthanded pitcher called up from the International League, he has four complete games, five victories, and a 2.20 earned-run average to show for a month of play. Johnson is the White Sox's late-season hope...
...that made them champions five years in a row, are just beginning to demonstrate some of their old tricks. Patching, shifting, always finagling with his lineup, Manager Casey Stengel still manages to keep the Yankees in contention. In August, "Bullet" Bob Turley began to look like the pennant-winning pitcher he seemed to be when he was bought from the Baltimore Orioles, but Righthander Don Larsen, home from a summer on the Yankees' Denver farm, is the man who makes the difference. With three victories in three starts, he has helped to revive an old Yankee habit: making those...