Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a solid lead of 5½ games, after splitting a pair with the second-place Cleveland Indians, 3-2 and 5-6. Come what may, the sight of the jerrybuilt White Sox leading the league is so fascinating that the team will most likely break its 1951 attendance record of 1,328,234 by more than...
...Francisco Giants were straggling back from the plate with their bats dragging. By the middle innings, the crowd of 82,794 at Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum was beginning to realize that the husky (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) Dodger southpaw might be heading for a record. Out on the mound, Sandy Koufax, 23, wiped away sweat and bore grimly down with each pitch, firing a fast ball that hopped as though magnetized, a crackling curve that dipped down...
Going into the ninth, the Dodgers' Koufax knew he had to fan the side. Giant Ed Bressoud was strike-out No. 16. Danny O'Connell was No. 17. Finally, swinging haplessly, Pitcher Jack Sanford was the big No. 18, and Koufax had broken the league record of 17 strikeouts set by the Cardinals' Dizzy Dean in 1933, tied the major-league mark set by Cleveland's Fireballer Bob Feller in 1938. To cap his performance, Koufax singled in the rally that won the game...
Early this year Bachelor Koufax was hampered by a sore shoulder that restricted him for five weeks to little more than pitching batting practice and lifting the arm of his hi-fi set (he likes Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky). Overall, he has a record of only 8-4. But with Koufax now at his blinding best (31 strike-outs -in his last two games) and crossfiring Don Drysdale leading the league in strikeouts (207), the second-place Dodgers have the fastest staff in the majors as they settle down for the September stretch fight with the Giants. To prove the point...
...aroma of an hour-and-a-quarter commercial. In fact, that is precisely what it is. But by the time it finishes its 48-day, eight-city, coast-to-coast tour next month, Buick '60, Buick's slick, sales-gimmick musical, will have run up a road record that few Broadway hits can approach: almost every performance a hot-ticket, S.R.O. sellout...