Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Red Sox Slugger (35 home runs, 122 runs batted in) Jackie Jensen was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player, became the first player on a non-pennant winner to win the award since Yogi Berra did it in 1954. Runner-up: Yankee Pitcher Bob Turley.
...others picked were second baseman Nellie Fox of the Chicago White Sox, third baseman Frank Thomas of the Pittsburgh Pirates, outfielder Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants, catcher Del Crandall of the Braves and right-handed pitcher Bob Turley of the Yankees...
...Boston's talented, temperamental Ted Williams turned furious at a called third strike in a game with Washington, hurled his bat toward the dugout, saw it sail into the seats and strike a spectator, who turned out to be Mrs. Gladys Heffernan, housekeeper for Red Sox General Manager Joe Cronin. Mrs. Heffernan was bruised over the left eye. Forgiving Williams, Cronin explained: "The guy feels bad enough...
Williams' homer, a bases-empty blast in the seventh inning and his twenty-sixth of the season, broke a 4-4 tie and pushed the Red Sox to a 6-4 victory over the Washington Senators and sewed up third place for the Boston Club...
...school starts. Says the station's Program Manager David Croninger: "We put on a saturation campaign much like an ad agency would schedule to sell cigarettes." Hard-selling its product, the station each day broadcast a windbag of "Hi, kids" spot announcements by such notables as White Sox Manager Al Lopez, Singer Tommy Sands and Inland Steel President Joseph Block. At a monster rally last week (17 cops and a turn-away crowd of 2,500 teeners), Deejay Howard Miller paraded an in-person menagerie of teen-rage songbirds, drew from Singer Eddy Arnold the admission that he quit...