Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides Sullivan, the Red Sox will start White behind the plate, Vernon at first, Goodman at second, Buddin at short, Malzone at third, Williams in left, Piersall center, and Jensen in right...
...October 8, 1946. Enos "Country" Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals led off first base, while Harry "The Hat" Walker waited out a 2 and 1 count and then belted a deep single to left center. The Sox' Ted Williams fielded the ball and tossed it in to Johnny Pesky at short. Pesky, hesitant, bobbled it for a moment and then relayed a wide and in-the-dirt peg to Hal Wagner at the plate. But Slaughter had already scored from first...
WILSON, S. C., April 12-The Philadelphia Phillies wasted two home runs today as they dropped a 6-4 decision to the Boston Red Sox before a record breaking paid crowd of 6,500 here today...
Boston Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams, yanked out of baseball for 17 months when the Marine Corps sent him off to fly combat missions in Korea in 1952, sounded a wrathful cry over the plight of Johnny Podres. Now a 1-A military draft eligible, Brooklyn's A-1 Pitcher Podres, 23, winner of two of the four victories that gave the Dodgers their first world championship last fall, spent the past three years in the 4-F bracket because of a bad back. Ever mum about his own recall to a second long tour of duty, Marine Williams...
Teen-agers are still going steady with cotton, despite increasing competition from nylon, rayon and other man-made fibers. So the Department of Agriculture reported last week after a survey of 1,751 girls aged 14 to 17. Of all teen-agers in the survey owning bobby-sox (3% do not), 70% prefer cotton socks, v. only 10% for nylon and 5% for wool. In summer clothes cotton's lead is still bigger: 94% prefer cotton skirts, v. 2% for linen and i% or less for every other fabric covered. Wool leads in winter skirts (68% v. cotton...