Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most startling comeback of many a show business season is being staged by a trio of Brillo-headed knockabouts called The Three Stooges. Historically, they belong to the era when the Marx Brothers crammed more humanity into a ship's stateroom than a dormitoryful of college students assaulting a telephone booth. Clutching the slapstick just as hard, over the course of 24 years the Stooges cranked out 194 pie-faced comedies for Columbia Pictures, most of them two-reelers designed to run as curtain raisers before the main feature...
...early days of any baseball season are traditionally characterized by astronomic batting averages belonging to unfamiliar names. Last week, with the season barely three weeks old, National League pitchers were still trying to find ways to deal with three young outfielders who had never looked so good before...
...Demeter, 23, seemed too weak and skinny to be a big leaguer, but the Dodgers signed him for a paltry $800 bonus on the chance he might fill out and develop power. It seemed wasted money last season, when Demeter, a right-handed batter, hit a sickly .189 for Los Angeles in 43 games with only five home runs, eight runs batted in. But this year the beefed-up (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) Demeter is suddenly a slugging terror, in his first ten games had six homers...
Felipe Alou, 23, went to the San Francisco Giants as a slick fielder but an unproven hitter. This season the graceful right-handed hitter from the Dominican Republic actually outdid the incomparable Willie Mays in the early going, hit a fat .377, slugged four homers in his first 13 games. Says Alou happily: "I learn how to snap...
Vada Pinson, 20, folded last year after only three weeks with Cincinnati, and was shipped off to Seattle. This season the well-built left-handed batter is hitting a snappy .357. Pinson blames his failure last year on a bases-loaded homer he socked in Pittsburgh in the second game of the season. "I'd never hit one with three on before," he explains, "and I started looking for the chance to do it again. I'm not that way any more. All I'm trying to do this year is get on base...