Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with general managers I is that they never went to college. They cheat on bonuses, cheat on anything." The angry man is the University of Texas' Baseball Coach Bibb Falk, onetime Chicago White Sox outfielder; the objects of his rage are the major leagues, particularly the fast-talking scouts who circle the campuses and lure away the best college baseball players with sweet talk and bonuses. It not only hurts college baseball, argue Bibb and other college coaches, but also hurts the young men who are wooed away. For their reasons, see SPORT, Blame It on the Majors...
Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 25-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March...
Bibb has no objection at all when a college ballplayer is so good that he is assured of a career in the majors. Texas has sent some, including Dodger Innelder Randy Jackson and Boston Manager Pinky Higgins, and Bibb himself went to the Chicago White Sox directly from the Texas campus in 1920. A keg-shaped, hard-hitting outfielder, he stayed in the majors for twelve years, averaged .312 at bat. But today, says Bibb, many boys with too little talent are tempted to sign baseball contracts and quit school. The Kansas City Athletics, for example, have signed 322 collegians...
...team was losing to the Boston Red Sox 3-0 in the fifth inning when the Cleveland Indians' Righthander Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuscahoma McLish was called in to pitch. Deep in an almost impossible situation, Cal tried every pitch he knew and thereby earned a place in the record book. In the sixth inning Boston Second Baseman Gene Mauch connected with Cal's best change-up for a leftfield homer. Leftfielder Ted Williams belted a fast ball into the right-field seats. Cal had only curves left. First Baseman Dick Gernert and Third Baseman Frank Malzone walloped...
Trailing 6-4 in the seventh inning, the Yankees scored eight times and went on to crush the Red Sox, 17-8, last night at Fenway Park...