Word: scores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleveland needed three pitchers in the ninth inning to defeat the Athletics, 6 to 4, in an American League opener in Kansas City. Gary Bell, entering the ninth with a four-run lead, gained one out and gave up three singles and a run before being relieved by Herb Score...
After walking two and allowing a run on a wild pitch, Score was pulled for Dick Brodowski, who put out the fire...
Below this, the American League starts to get pretty rocky. 1959 could be the big year for Cleveland to make its dying fall into the second division. There is a strong possibility that the Indians' pitching staff, long the envy of the majors, will fold completely. Herb Score has never been the same since Gil McDougald bounced a line drive off his eyeball, and paunchy Mike Garcia is about through. Other mound hopefuls Gary Bell, Mudcat Grant and Cal McLish will not inspire much fear in the opposition...
...from one extended gag to the next within a ridiculous plot. The pre-occupation with sex makes even the usual Hasty Pudding obsession seem mild, while the amours of various hermaphroditic characters is embarrassingly unfunny. The play's tasteless broadness clashes incongruously with Arthur Honegger's witty and sophisticated score which is its only saving grace...
Despite a cast containing many of the best singers around Harvard, the Lowell House Opera's production failed either to elevate the play or to do justice to Honegger's score. In the last act there was an inspirational moment suggesting what might have been done with the show: the king asks for some hot chocolate, and the stage is immediately inundated with his entire retinue, led by four flamenco dancers, in a hilarious parody. But this, and a few other isolated touches, were the only light spots in a generally strained evening...