Word: sal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five games into third place in mid-July, Manager Walter Alston had to read the riot act to his world champions before they finally got themselves untracked. Duke Snider, the league's leading homerun hitter, began to hit a few (32 at week's end). Cleveland Castoff Sal Maglie started pitching the kind of games he once turned in for the Giants, going the distance in all five of his victories, two of them shutouts. With the team's right-handed power hitters beginning to get those couple of runs, the Dodgers put together an eight-game...
...Reluctant to miss out on all the seat-selling notoriety, Cincinnati's General Manager Gabe Paul announced that Dodger pitching was a lot better than the rest of the league's batters seemed to think. Paul accused Brooklyn's Sal Maglie of warming up by firing fast balls at the Scoreboard clock in Crosley Field. The clock stopped. "Officials of the Brooklyn club are being advised of this act of 'senior delinquency,' " said Paul-and they are also getting the repair bill...
...first run of the cold afternoon was recorded in the home seventh. With one away, Phil Haughey was hit by a pitch. Repetto fouled out, but Stu Levine walked, Haughey advancing to second. Bob Cleary then looped a fly into left, but Sal DeAngelo of the visitors hesitated before starting in, and the ball fell in front of him as Haughey scored. John Simourian ended the frame by grounding...
...floods that cover a quarter of the valley's million acres. Transmission lines will go up to tie the dams and a newly completed plant at Anchicaya (begun before C.V.C. was conceived) to power users. Work will start in 1959 on the system's biggest dam at Sal-vajina. Other projects: flood channels, levees, irrigation ditches, and enough steam plants to bring generating capacity...
...Omnibus got off to an interesting start with Author William Saroyan's recollection of his California boyhood and was memorable for the sharply played vignettes of adolescence by Actors Sal Mineo and Pat De Simone. Then Composer Leonard Bernstein took over for a splendidly lucid primer on the world of jazz. Pointing out that blues are based on a rhymed couplet in iambic pentameter with the first line repeated, Bernstein developed a lowdown blues song from Shakespeare.* Bernstein looks like a young Burgess Meredith, speaks with extraordinary clarity and intelligence and is always able to demonstrate precisely what...