Word: sox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Tigers had finished with them, the Yankees had lost two games, had dropped to fifth place-with the Chicago White Sox as well as the Red Sox, Indians and Tigers in front of them. For the first time in ten years a Yankee team had sunk to the second division with only two months to go (last year they led the league by nine games...
True to his word. Old Bo-Bo (who previously played with the Dodgers, Cubs, Browns, Senators, Red Sox) proceeded to give the Yankees a dose of his pitching poison: a fast ball with plenty of hop, a baffling curve, a lazy looper. In 16 games this season, he and his teammates drubbed the World Champions twelve times. Last week, in their three-game series, they pounded them for 24 runs, 41 hits...
...retaining the lead in the National League pennant race (one game ahead of the Reds, five ahead of the Giants). In an equally close race in the American League, the Cleveland Indians nosed ahead on the traditionally auspicious Fourth-with the Tigers one game behind, the Red Sox four behind, the Yankees 5½ behind...
...suggested ennui, overconfidence, the law of averages, and a recent American League ruling that forbids a World Champion club to trade or buy players from rival clubs. But Manager Oscar Vitt of the Cleveland Indians, chuckling over his team's position just behind the league-leading Boston Red Sox, was not entirely surprised by the Yankee collapse. A soothsayer named Tony Characky had predicted to him that Cleveland would put the Indian sign on the Yankees this year...
...sister Marguerite, who had gone to Chicago from their farm in Van Meter, Iowa. Ma Feller in years gone by had often "cried her eyes out" because little Bob and his father used to spend so much time behind the barn playing ball. Last week, when the last White Sox batter had been put out, Ma Feller was in tears again, but for a different reason...