Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the weekend, the American League race turned upside down. Winning a desperate doubleheader (5-3, 5-3), Cleveland pushed the faltering White Sox from first place to third, snatched the No. 1 spot a bare half-game ahead of the Yankees. A three-run Mantle homer helped the Yankees humble the Senators, 8-3, stay in second place. With some 20 games left to play, the stretch, even for veterans like Casey Stengel, was fast becoming a manager's nightmare...
...American League pennant race showed no signs of slowing down. With homers by Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees kept a precarious hold on first place, took the initial game of a double-header with Chicago, 6-1. But the second-place White Sox bounced back, 3-2, thanks to Third Baseman Bob Kennedy's first inning, three-run homer. The split held the Yankee's lead to half a game. Poor pitching cost the Cleveland Indians a double-header with the seventh-place Senators (8-2, 13-4), dropped them from a first-place...
...black panama off his forehead: "Man, I'm buoyant. I feel about eight feet tall." Said a friend: "He's got it made. He's come all the way back and he's gone still further. He's made the transition from the bobby-sox to the Serutan set and if he keeps on going like he's going, he'll step right in when Bing steps out as the greatest all-around entertainer in the business...
...psychiatrists agree. "Mammary hyperesthesia," muttered one. Sinatra's voice, said another doctor, was in the early days "an authentic cry of starvation." Far from least, there was the late George Evans, Sinatra's pressagent, who more than any man helped to pull Frank up by his bobby-sox. He organized all the excitement into the pigtail platoon that pushed Frank over...
...Sox had placed their hopes in hard-hitting Ted Williams. When he broke off a legal skirmish with his wife and returned to baseball, Ted found the Sox in seventh place; at week's end they were in fourth, only 3½ games off the pace. Though Ted's big bat was a factor in the resurgence of the Red Sox, most of the credit goes to their little (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) shortstop, Billy Klaus. A veteran castoff from the Indians, Cubs, Braves and Giants, Billy, at 26, has been batting back and forth between...