Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, said Bill Veeck (rhymes with peck), onetime owner of the Cleveland Indians and St. Louis Browns, now the new boss of the Chicago White Sox. For $2,700,000, Veeck and associates bought control from the squabbling Comiskey family, who had controlled the team since 1901. The skill of the good-pitch, no-hit Sox may not improve right away, but the ball games in Comiskey Park are bound to be livelier...
...Veeck, "being in baseball is like taking dope," and now that he is back, he has marijuana-sized dreams for the White Sox. Chicago is a potential gold mine, says Veeck: "Industry is diversified so that if one sector of the economy is hurting, it doesn't kill you like it would in Detroit or Pittsburgh." He intends to pull all the stops. His first object, he says, is "putting on the field the best ball club." Then come the gimmicks: fireworks shows at $1,000 a clip, a baby-sitting service for mothers, free nylons for the ladies...
...Harvard Divinity School graduate with a lingering devotion to the Boston Red Sox last week became the spiritual ruler of 1,300,000 Greek Orthodox believers in North and South America. Elected Archbishop of the Americas: black-bearded, handsome Metropolitan James of Malta, 48, a U.S. citizen who was born Jacob A. Koukouzes on the Turkish island of Imros. His impressive qualifications for the position, second biggest in his church: 16 years as a Greek Orthodox theologian and chief vicar of congregations in New York and New England, four years as Greek Orthodoxy's highly effective liaison agent...
...fixed situations and "just letting them happen." By betting on the fixes of others, Rothstein also kept his hands technically clean-he was never convicted of breaking the law. In the case of the 1919 World Series, Rothstein has often been accused of having fixed the Chicago White Sox players' defeat. He denied it, but he probably prompted the fix and certainly won $350,000 by betting...
CREDIT CARD BASEBALL will be served by Diners' Club. It signed Chicago White Sox to permit cardholders to charge tickets, is dickering with other major league clubs...