Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baseball Results National League Cincinatti 10 Pittsburgh...
...National League, the fourthplace Chicago Braves will take on San Francisco's Giants, current leaders in the early-season race. Also playing are: Philadelphia at Milwaukee, Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, and St. Louis at Los Angeles...
...team in the National League, led the league for brief periods until early August, when the inadequate pitching staff finally folded completely. Explains Manager Bill Rigney: "We had to borrow tomorrow's pitching today, and it finally caught up with us." The Giants finished third, behind Milwaukee and Pittsburgh...
...over the winter, the Giants took on new strength while their chief rivals sagged. Milwaukee's second baseman and sparkplug Red Schoendienst, recovering from tuberculosis, will be out of play all season, and the Braves looked unimpressive as they dropped 15 of their first 21 spring training exhibitions. Pittsburgh's second-place Pirates gave up power that they could ill afford to lose when they traded Slugger Frank Thomas to the Cincinnati Reds. In the winter trading, the Giants picked up two established starting pitchers: Jack Sanford, 29, who won 19 games for Philadelphia two years...
...over the Pirates put the Milwaukee Braves off to a running start at Pittsburgh in the opener of their '59 pennant drive. The victory was Warren Spahn's 44th Major League shutout...