Word: sal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Giant fans were able to move back to the present again. Their favorites were in the first division, and they had found a reasonable 1950 counterpart to Hubbell in Righthander Sal Maglie, a sturdy, blue-jowled pitcher who proved this year that he could throw with the best of them. He was even making threatening gestures at Hubbell's National League record of 43⅓-scoreless innings...
Once to Mexico. Five years ago, when Maglie left the Giants for the Mexican League, few fans were upset; Pitcher Maglie had never amounted to much. When Sal rejoined the team last spring, Manager Leo Durocher figured that, at 33, Maglie might possibly make a relief pitcher. Durocher had a batch of strong-armed younger men who looked more like starters, so Maglie sweated it out in the bullpen...
...start. He won his game in eleven innings and has been a mainstay ever since. Last week he made his eleventh start, pitched his eleventh complete game, won his eleventh straight. (His tenth-TIME, Sept. 18-was his fourth shutout in a row, tying a National League record.) Sal's eleventh straight was a bit of a disappointment...
...Manhattan, Giant Pitcher Sal Maglie, his fourth consecutive shutout (over Brooklyn, 2-0), to tie a National League record...
This week, with the Liberal judges conspicuously absent, bulky, cold-eyed Laureano Gómez was sworn in before nine of the 16 members of the Supreme Court. In his inauguration speech, in the Salón Eliptico of the Capitol, Gómez praised U.S. action in Korea, and promised Colombians reconstruction of their country "on firm and austere bases." The ending of his speech was apt: "We men are only blades of grass in the hands of God. May His omnipotent hand save Colombia...