Word: shortstop
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...managed to get out in front, 2-1, in the seventh inning, and most of the 64,505 spectators in nominally hostile Yankee Stadium roared hoarse approval of Sawyer's whiz kids. But with two out in the eighth, the Yankees tied things up on an error by Shortstop Granny Hamner, went on to win with more clutch hitting in the ninth. Score...
...made his bow on television with the Joe DiMaggio Show (Sat. 5:30 p.m., NBC-TV), first in a weekly series for a toymaker (Lionel trains). Looking handsome and assured, the Yankee Clipper showed flashbacks of the 1947 New York-Brooklyn World Series, interviewed teammate Phil Rizzuto on playing shortstop. For the last 5 minutes, DiMaggio turned the program over to a panel of goggle-eyed admirers, seemed to enjoy himself hugely watching Rizzuto answer questions from baseball-minded youngsters. As if Hero DiMag wasn't enough, the Lionel commercial showed off a line of electric trains that would...
...various times this season, Billy has played all over the infield. He has performed ably, if not brilliantly, at first, second and third bases and shortstop. But it is only since he took over Williams' leftfield post that Goodman has begun to get recognition for what he is: the best one-man bench in baseball. Red Sox Manager Steve O'Neill, who has been around the game for 40 years, calls him. "the best utility player I ever...
What had kept the aged, ailing Yankees in the race? Big, barrel-shaped Veteran Johnny Mize, 37, was one answer. Called up from Kansas City in the spring, he had hit 19 home runs in 68 games. Three other standbys were Sophomore Outfielder Hank Bauer (.341), Shortstop Phil Rizzuto (.330) and Catcher Yogi Berra (.323). They were having the best seasons of their baseball careers...
...best known and most popular civic figure in Chicago is neither the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, the Democrats' Mayor Martin Kennelly nor the White Sox's aging but indefatigable shortstop, Lucius Benjamin Appling. In 20 years of residence at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Bushman, Chicago's own gorilla, has topped them all, both in favorable publicity and unwavering public regard...