Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awkward, hardheaded slugger, willing to take a punch to land one. But when he landed, his opponent usually dropped. Rocky never really bothered to learn how to box; he never really had to. Without losing a fight, he battered his way up through the heavyweight ranks. It took him only eight rounds to dispose of Joe Louis and ruin the comeback of that puffy remnant of a great champ. Later, he won the title by flattening Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott in the 13th round, after being knocked down in the third for the first time in his professional life...
Admittedly, most of the '46 heroes are gone now. Of the three remaining, Al "Red" Schoendienst has had his driving license stamped "Restricted to Glasses," and Stan Musial has trouble loping in from the outfield. And poor Ted Williams, though still the most popular slugger since Babe Ruth, doesn't like to play on cold days...
...third, Stu Lavine, hard-hitting captain of last year's freshman team, and Tony Markella, up from the j.v.s are trying to replace Don Butters, the slugger who led the Crimson in home runs last season...
Boston Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams, yanked out of baseball for 17 months when the Marine Corps sent him off to fly combat missions in Korea in 1952, sounded a wrathful cry over the plight of Johnny Podres. Now a 1-A military draft eligible, Brooklyn's A-1 Pitcher Podres, 23, winner of two of the four victories that gave the Dodgers their first world championship last fall, spent the past three years in the 4-F bracket because of a bad back. Ever mum about his own recall to a second long tour of duty, Marine Williams...
Turning out for a National Basketball Association doubleheader in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, baseball's great ex-Slugger Joe DiMaggio, 41, onetime New York Yankee now turned gentleman of leisure, and his husky son Joe Jr., 14, watched stoically as the Boston Celtics beat the Minneapolis Lakers (in to 104). They also kept poker faces while last season's champions, the Syracuse Nationals, hooped in a 98-to-91 victory over the butterfingered New York Knickerbockers...