Word: sox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emerson Dickman, former Red Sox pitcher who came out of retirement this season to coach the Tigers, claims that "pitching is 90 percent of college baseball . . . I want a tight defense and the best possible pitching." This sounds strange coming from an old American Leaguer, but Dickman, who worked for the Sox in the years just before the war, may have the pitching he is looking for in Bob Wolcott, Princeton's burler today...
Yardling ballplayers shared the Red Sox fate as morning showers, that stopped before game-time, caused postponement of yesterday's scheduled contest with Tufts freshmen until 3:45 p.m. today. Spider Webb will be the starting pitcher for the Crimson...
...McClain, who will pitch for the visitors, is a right-hander and has worked one complete game in two years of varsity baseball. He lost a five-hitter to Wesleyan in the Bruins' opener. Brown is coached by Lefty Lefebvre, former pitcher with the Red Sox and Senators...
...Boston Red Sox still had baseball's modern version of murderer's row, headed by slugging Outfielder Ted Williams. If the Sox could somehow develop pitchers like Cleveland's-or those of the New York Yankees or the Philadelphia A's- they could make it a runaway...
Died. Chalmers (Bill) Cissell, 45, who lasted a decade as a big-league shortstop after being bought in 1927 by the Chicago White Sox for $123,000, one of the highest prices ever paid for a minor-league ballplayer; of a heart ailment; in Chicago...