Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next season's campaign by electing Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra the Most Valuable Player in the American League for the second year in a row and the third time in his career. Other three-time American League winners: Jimmy Foxx, of the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox, and the Yankees' Joe DiMaggio...
...Boys Are Bunting. No matter how often he pitched, Cy Young could always hold his own with the best of his day. Rube Waddell of the old Athletics, Cleveland's Addie Joss, Ed Walsh of the White Sox, Amos Rusie of the Giants, Washington's Walter Johnson-sooner or later, Cy Young matched them all. In 1911 when he played for Boston, Cy's rubber right arm was still strong, but his legs were slowing down. "The boys are bunting on me," he said. "When the third baseman has to start doing my work...
...Hall-of-Fame pitching star; in Washington. Griffith got into the game in 1887, remained on active playing rosters until 1914, was a famed 20-game winning pitcher for the oldtime Chicago Colts. He joined the league that he helped to form when he signed with the Chicago White Sox in 1901 as player-manager, won the youthful league's first pennant. Two years later he became the first manager of New York's Highlanders, ancestors of the Yankees. In 1912 he settled down with the Senators and helped raise baseball to national-game status when he persuaded...
...Within a fortnight after his resignation as general manager of the Chicago White Sox, Frank Lane, 59, one of baseball's most astute player traders, signed a three-year contract to be general manager of August A. Busch's seventh-place St. Louis Cardinals...
...people of the U.S., who dearly love a good show and are addicted to the principle of truth by endorsement, could not resist a born showman who had once batted .359 for the Chicago White Sox. His name, Billy Sunday, seemed like an assurance of all things good and democratic, and he was endorsed by John D. Rockefeller...