Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Pittsburgh, did the same the following day. The Cardinals' Stan Musial hit a home run to beat Cincinnati. The Yankees' Mickey Mantle walloped two out-of-the-park homers to help lick Washington (and added two more homers by week's end). And the Red Sox's Ted Williams expertly dumped three hits into left field against the right-side "Williams shift" to pace the Sox to victory over Baltimore...
Berra Ballet. The arrival of the baseball season was heralded with another brace of biographies. ABC's Cavalcade Theater offered the life story of Jackie Jensen, an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, but its only dramatic high point seemed to be that, except for baseball, Jackie might have been expelled from junior high school. On Climax!, The Lou Gehrig Story possessed more inherent drama as paralysis ended both the career and life of the great Yankee first baseman, but unfortunately, the TV treatment was strictly soap opera. NBC got in another plug for the national pastime with Salute...
Baseball (Sat. 1:55 p.m., CBS). New York Yankees v. Boston Red Sox...
...broke into the game with the late Connie Mack's Milwaukee club and was the first player to bat in the modern World Series; in Burlington, Wis. Playing centerfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ginger Beaumont stepped to the plate against the Boston Pilgrims' (now the Red Sox) famed Denton ("Cy") Young in the first (1903) Series game, flied...
...Sox, it should be easy going all the way. Williams will lead the power attack, squeezing his doubles off the wall into singles, and Mickey Vernon should be able to help out at least until the end of June...