Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling baseball team yesterday ripped apart the Boston University freshmen, 9 to 1, at Braves Field, as it lengthened its winning streak to five games. Roy Williams, who thus far this year has distinguished himself as an outstanding slugger, took to the mound and gave a very creditable performance, toying with a no hitter for six innings...
...Boston's aging (40), terrible-tempered Slugger Ted Williams, the coming of spring carries inevitable splinters of physical woe. Last week, a fortnight after he first winced at a pain in the shoulder, Red Sox Star Williams shambled glumly into Boston's Lahey Clinic. Doctors studied his pinched nerve, began treatments. Ever-hopeful Ted, who has been benched almost a dozen times in his long career by such ills as a broken collarbone, a fractured elbow, ankle sprains and virus attacks, hoped to be at the season's opener, April...
...sparkplug Red Schoendienst, recovering from tuberculosis, will be out of play all season, and the Braves looked unimpressive as they dropped 15 of their first 21 spring training exhibitions. Pittsburgh's second-place Pirates gave up power that they could ill afford to lose when they traded Slugger Frank Thomas to the Cincinnati Reds. In the winter trading, the Giants picked up two established starting pitchers: Jack Sanford, 29, who won 19 games for Philadelphia two years ago, and aging (33) Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, a hard-throwing curve-bailer who led the league last year in strike-outs...
...otherwise average pitching staff of Brooks Lawrence, Joe Nuxhall, Bob Purkey, and rookie Jim O'Toole, the Reds could be very hard to beat. Their infield of Frank Robinson on first (where his fielding is still a question), Johnny Temple (.306) at second, Roy McMillan at short, and the slugger Frank Thomas at third is almost equal to Pittsburgh's. GusBell, Jerry Lynch, and Vada Pinson (the best looking rookie in the league) rank high in a league filled with good outfielders. Ed Bailey is easily the best of the catchers...
...bleeder who cuts easily around the eyes. He lost two fights earlier in his career when cuts were opened up. Davey Moore. 25, a minister's son and ex-Golden Glover from Springfield, Ohio, was just the kind of fighter who spells bad news for Bassey-a rugged slugger with a darting left and a clubbing right. The fight crowd knew it, and Bassey was no better than even money at the opening bell...