Word: sox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of beat-covering he learned his home town inside out. By the time he landed on the city desk, he was an authority on the city's clergymen and its bookies, its main streets and back alleys. As a young sports writer, he uncovered the 1919 Black Sox scandal, later got a scoop on the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note. Unlike the city editors of fiction, he is full of sweet 'reasonableness with his admiring staff of "Reutlinger's Rats...
...Sox were red-hot, and Bostonians caught the fever. A third of a million fans in two weeks saw the Sox win 14 straight games, a phenomenal string. Then the Sox put on their traveling shoes, proudly eyed their fat batting averages (two were above .400) and headed for Yankee Stadium...
There had never been anything quite like it. Throughout the streak, Red Sox pitching, never too good, was no better than usual; third base was still a problem; and the Sox were not too fast. Manager Joe Cronin had the answer: "We're just hitting...
...jammed the Yankee Stadium to see a hitting match between Joe Di Maggio and Ted Williams. Joe, who had been doing so poorly that the crowd had booed him the day before, hit a home run with the bases loaded. Williams couldn't hit a thing, but the Sox won victory No. 15 anyway...
Four in a row does not sound like a very long streak when stacked up against the Red Sox fifteen, but if the track team can reach that number this afternoon at Hanover, N. H., it will make Jaakko Mikkola a very happy...