Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Junior") Gilliam, who hit .278, fielded .976, led the league in triples (17) and drew 100 bases on balls, as a lead-off batter, was named the National League's Rookie of the Year, the fifth Negro in a row to win the award. Runnerup: St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Harvey Haddix, who won 20 games, lost...
Died. Edward Grant ("Ed") Barrow. 85, longtime business manager (1920-39) and president (1939-45) of baseball's pennant-winning New York Yankees; of cancer; in Port Chester, N.Y. Barred from a career as a pitcher after he strained his arm, he tried running a hotel, selling hot dogs in ballparks, peddling soap, before he went back to baseball. As manager of the Boston Red Sox (1919), he converted Southpaw Pitcher Babe Ruth into an outfielder to give him more turns at bat, and (with Ruth) moved to New York. By deals, trades and good scouting, Ed Barrow provided...
...junior music circles of Waukegan, Ill., where his father was (and is) a high-school music director. In addition to piano and violin, which he still plays, Otto learned the oboe, English horn, French horn and cornet. Otto also had other talents which his father, an old semipro pitcher, approved and encouraged. He won high-school letters in football, basketball and baseball, found time to play tennis and golf and win awards in Junior Olympic track and field events around Chicago...
...biggest baseball trade since Ralph Kiner went to Chicago, the Boston Red Sox gave up Pitcher Maurice McDermott, an 18-game winner, and Outfielder Tom Umphlett, a .283 hitter, to the Washington Senators for hard-hitting (84 R.B.I.'s) Outfielder Jackie Jensen...
...York Yankees and the Philadelphia Athletics swapped 11 players yesterday. Major figures in the trade were first baseman Eddie Robinson and pitcher Harry Byrd who went to the Yankees and the Athletics in turn received Negro first baseman Vic Power, outfielder Bill Renna, and first baseman Don Bollweg...