Word: southpaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davey, a southpaw powderpuff puncher with fancy-Dan footwork, stayed on even terms with Gavilan for the first two rounds. In Round 3, Gavilan opened up with one of his famed flurries, pummeling with lefts, rights and his own uppercutting bolo punch. Davey, bewildered by the barrage, was dumped to the canvas for a nine count, the first time he had ever been knocked down. From then on it was just a matter of time, and Gavilan took his time. In Rounds 5 and 6, Gavilan switched styles and fought southpaw too, "just...
...Double Southpaw...
Third Game. In the ninth, with the Dodgers leading 3-2, the Bums cracked two singles off Southpaw Ed Lopat, and Stengel moved in Righthander Tommy Gorman. Robinson and Reese welcomed him with a perfect double steal. Then a sinking fast ball got away from Catcher Yogi Berra and both runners scored: Dodgers 5, Yanks...
Died. Hubert B. ("Dutch") Leonard,* 60, southpaw pitcher who fireballed his way to fame in the American League (1913-25), later made a fortune as a California grape-grower; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Fresno. In 1914, on the pitching staff of the Boston Red Sox (which also included Babe Ruth), he had his best season, winning 19 games and losing five, for an average of 1.01earned runs a game. After helping Boston to world championships in 1915 and 1916, he quit baseball in 1925, retired to his Fresno ranch, where he could sit in any room...
Sensational Debut. Son of a Pottstown (Pa.) semi-pro player, Southpaw Shantz was first noticed, at 19, in Philadelphia's semi-pro Quaker City League, where he was a 9-1 pitcher and batted .485, playing center field in his off-pitching days. That was in 1944. He spent the next two seasons in the Army. Back in the Quaker City League in 1947, he improved his pitching (14-0), his batting (up to .497), and kept busy on weekends by pitching another team, Souderton, to the Eastern Penn League championship with eight more victories...