Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Red Sox Slugger (35 home runs, 122 runs batted in) Jackie Jensen was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player, became the first player on a non-pennant winner to win the award since Yogi Berra did it in 1954. Runner-up: Yankee Pitcher Bob Turley.
...Spahn came back next day, and the Yankees rolled over and played dead -even Slugger Bauer, who had his record consecutive game hitting streak for World Series play snapped at 17. The hooknosed southpaw cleverly curved the Yankees until late afternoon shadows crept over the stadium, then opened up with a still hopping fast ball, retired 17 of the last 18 batters in fashioning a two-hit 3-0 shutout. Gloated Spahn: "Somebody got the impression that I can't throw anything but junk. Well, somebody is misinformed." Shortstop Tony Kubek let in the first Milwaukee run with...
...seldom crusades: "I don't think I'm God-I'm not running the world." But Mullin often strops a sharp edge on a drawing. One neatly sliced target: spitting Slugger Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox. Another: Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley, pictured as a Mullinesque carpetbagger while he prepared to move his team to Los Angeles (TIME, April 28) in search of the dollar. Says O'Malley, undaunted: "I am very high on Mr. Mullin...
...trouble getting fights. "I had to go to Panama for a year and to Australia for six months to find someone to fight." he recalls. But Joe's fortunes improved after Trainer Bill Gore took him over late in 1955, set about making him more of a slugger...
...Lean Detroit Righthander Jim Bunning, chomping impassively on a wad of gum, hit a batter and walked two, but struck out twelve others, got Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams on a routine outfield fly for the last out to wrap up a 3-0 victory at Boston's Fenway Park, become the first major leaguer to pitch a no-hit game...