Word: southpaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Versatile Alvin Dark, 25, ex-Louisiana State football star now shortstop for the Boston Braves, won out as National League "Rookie-of-the-Year" in an Associated Press poll of 220 sportwriters. The American League "Rookie-of-the-Year": sensational Gene Bearden, Cleveland's 28-year-old southpaw pitcher...
Silent Bats. It went on like that for four days: good pitching and terrible hitting. Cleveland's brilliant southpaw Rookie Gene Bearden, shutting out the Braves (2-0), only twice let the count go to three balls on any Boston batter. Knuckle-bailer Steve Gromek, who out-pitched Sain in the fourth game (2-1), gave only one base on balls. The 1948 World Series was in danger of being remembered only for precision pitching. Grantland Rice called it the Series of silent bats. Disgusted fans and sportwriters complained that it was the dullest World Series in memory. What...
Boudreau sent in his sensational southpaw, Rookie Gene Bearden, who held the mighty Sox while Boudreau and Ken Keltner helped win the game (8-3) with three homers between them...
There is even more fuel for the fire to be found in the Boston press. Dave Egan '22 recently went on record with the reflection that only one Brave--southpaw Warren Spahn--could make the Sox first string...
...began his big-league career as a crack southpaw pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. But he was also a slugger without peer, and when he clouted most of his record 714 home runs, he wore a New York Yankee uniform, played the outfield. Son of a Baltimore saloonkeeper, he was brought up in a Baltimore school for delinquents, and he never quite grew up. In his first years in baseball, he scoffed at training rules, took his drinks where he found them, abused umpires, once chased up into the stands after an abusive...