Word: playing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dodger veterans and kids have meshed to produce a balanced ball club. The Dodger pitching staff, founded on the cross-fired fast balls of young Don Drysdale, has become one of the best in the league. But the Dodgers will rise or fall in the stretch on the play of three old pros, who are hustling like sandlotters. On third, Junior Gilliam, 30, is having the best season of his seven-year major-league career (.312), has been on base in more than 95% of the games he has started. At 32, Outfielder Duke Sniders hair is grey...
...made Lane's new players fizz instead of fizzle was Manager Joe Gordon, the old Yankee second baseman, who had helped Cleveland win the world championship in 1948. Gordon has his high-spirited Indians playing a confident, aggressive brand of ball that is packing the fans into Cleveland Stadium* after years of declining attendance since the 1954 pennant. Backed by a long-ball attack, this whirlwind play has so far made up for mediocre pitching. (FastBaller Herb Score has never recovered his coordination since being hit in the eye with a batted ball...
East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: The Clostin Case, a new play by Raymond Bowers...
...Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier in Lorraine Hansberry's electric first play about a South Side Chicago Negro family bargaining for happiness...
Provincetown, Mass., Playhouse: Lovers in Midstream, a new play by William D. Roberts...