Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others picked were second baseman Nellie Fox of the Chicago White Sox, third baseman Frank Thomas of the Pittsburgh Pirates, outfielder Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants, catcher Del Crandall of the Braves and right-handed pitcher Bob Turley of the Yankees...
...Pittsburgh (4-1)-though wearied by a rough-and-tumble schedule, is still a solid all-round outfit, disposed of West Virginia...
...with a Manhattan TV film firm, and Coleman (Harvard, '48) was attending the University of Pennsylvania law school. They bought a stake in a soft drink company, swapped their interest for a Cleveland chemical company, whose earnings they doubled in ten months. Then in 1955 they spotted Pittsburgh's ailing Fort Pitt beer company, and took it over with all the eclat of two cub scouts finding the Northwest Passage...
...since 1925, when Pittsburgh did it to Washington, had a team come off the floor to win after losing three of the first four series games. Post-mortem accolades went to the Yankees' burly Turley, who had a hand in every one of the last three-in-a-row victories-winning one singlehanded, getting the last out in another, saving the final game with a spectacular 6| innings of two-hit relief pitching. Hard-bitten Rightfielder Hank Bauer led the Yankees at bat with a .323 average and four home runs. But the man Milwaukee will remember most vividly...
...sharp increase in orders.'' As operations in the Youngstown, Ohio district rose to 64% of capacity v. 56% the week before, hundreds of workers trooped back to work. Furnaces glowed again: U.S. Steel relit a blast furnace at its Youngstown works and two open hearths in Pittsburgh; Bethlehem Steel planned to relight four or five open hearths at its Lackawanna works near Buffalo...