Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity squash team went down to its second defeat of the season yesterday, losing to the Union Boat Club, 4 to 2. Charles Poletti, number 5 man, was the only Crimson player to salvage...
Little joy is to be found in Boston these days. The whole city feels itself spiritually sacked, burned, and plowed under with salt after last Friday's announcement that the Baseball Writers Association had chosen Mickey Mantle the American League's Most Valuable Player instead of the only rational choice, Ted Williams...
...Most Valuable Player Award is often and rightly awarded to a player on the pennant winning team. However, the Yankees had such a huge lead that they could have won the pennant without Mantle; the Red Sox could certainly not have finished anywhere near third without the services of Thumping Theodore...
This brown taste is not sympathy for Williams; he probably could not care less, nor is it the tragic despair of feeling injustice unpunished. It is a plaint against irrationality, and against the things that make it possible to choose Mantle the most valuable player...
...Mantle is a Yankee, and the Yankees are the "power elite" of the baseball world. They are the biggest; they have more money, better organization and more pennants. The Yankees win and the American dream of success influences even sports writers. A Yankee has won the Most Valuable Player Award each of the last four years and twelve times since...