Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wynn, Kluszewski and Lollar). The Dodgers won because their defense turned the touted Chicago go-go attack to molasses. The whiplash throws of Catcher John Roseboro allowed only two White Sox to steal second in the entire Series. The Dodgers' slick infield, built around the double-play combination of Shortstop Maury Wills and Second Baseman Charley Neal, both lean and limber as greyhounds, outmatched Chicago's famed duo of Shortstop Luis Aparicio and Second Baseman Nellie Fox (7 double plays...
...cliche to cliche. For six months he lives in the inevitable cold-water flat with an orange crate for an icebox, and walks the streets from one tryout to another. Nothing doing. Then a talk-big, pay-small type Dean Martin) gives him a good part in a bad play in the usual cellar in Greenwich Village...
...deafened by our noise and play...
Nevertheless, Boellert usually managed to come up with the right play when it counted, and the Crimson offense could do nothing against him and his swarming teammates. The varsity again demonstrated its need for a scoring punch...
Less than two minutes later, guard Bill Swinford picked off a Lion pass at midfield, and carrying the ball like a loaf of bread, sped to the Columbia 19. On the next play Bruce MacIntyre slammed through a gaping hole in the Lion defense and cut through to the goal line...