Word: sox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Managers. In the first week's scramble the managers took the worst beating. Cleveland's Lou Boudreau opened on a low note by getting picked off third base with the ancient hidden-ball trick. Joe Cronin of the Red Sox broke his ankle sliding into second. Leo Durocher of Brooklyn, who had loudly threatened to play second base for the first 15 games, gave up with sore shins after a game and a half (he was still juggling his batting order right & left-five times in five days...
...owner of the Boston Red Sox, big-game-hunting Tom Yawkey, looked up last week at the stuffed head of a bull moose which hangs on his office wall and mused: he might be "playing center field for [us] before the season is over...
...rest are manpower-hungry and struggling to shake off a second division complex. Yawkey's Red Sox have Batsmen Bob (.324) Johnson and Ervin (.315) Fox, little else. The loss of Third-Sacker Ken Keltner leaves Cleveland with but one top-drawer infielder, Shortstop-Manager Lou Boudreau. Dynamic Jimmy Dykes, Chicago White Sox manager, has high hopes that Rookie-Infielder Bill Nagel, a fence-buster from Milwaukee can fill the shoes of Hal Trosky. Weak behind the plate, strong on Cubans again. Washington is minus its only .300 hitter, Stan Spence. Philadelphia's Athletics hoped ex-Milwaukee Outfielder...
...Sox.) LEE SOLTERS Camp Stoneman, Calif...
FIFTH FLEET Ryan (Braves) 2b. Vernon (Senators) If. McQuillen (Browns)cf. Mize (Giants) Ib. Rowe (Phillies) rf. Brancato (Athletics) 3b. Glossop (Cubs) ss. Dickey (White Sox) c. Trucks (Tigers) p. Vander Meer (Reds) p. Klinger (Pirates...