Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m.. CBS). Tab Hunter in Fear Strikes Out, a drama based on the mental illness and cure of Boston Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall...
...closest pennant race in the American League since 1948, when the Cleveland Indians, the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Athletics eased into August in a virtual tie.* Now it was the Indians, Yankees, White Sox and Red Sox scrambling for the flag. Their four managers were on the spot. Each one was expected to win; each one was looking wildly for help. There was a chance for each of them, and a single new pitcher or long-ball hitter or sure-handed infielder could make a big difference...
...White Sox, staggered by the temporary loss (appendectomy) of 13-game-winning Pitcher Dick Donovan, might well find that man in aging (32) Connie Johnson. A righthanded pitcher called up from the International League, he has four complete games, five victories, and a 2.20 earned-run average to show for a month of play. Johnson is the White Sox's late-season hope...
Warm-Weather Cheers. Chicago's optimists had a hard time believing Slats. The Sox, after all, had an unnerving and persistent failing called a June swoon, a mid-season slump that started them sliding toward the second division. But last week, even the diehards agreed that Marion's cold-weather prediction might pan out. The White Sox took two out of three games from the disintegrating Yanks; they split a four-game series with the Boston Red Sox and at week's end they were scrapping with the Yanks and Indians for the league lead...
...first time in decades, the White Sox are operating with a first-line player in every position. Behind the plate, Catcher Sherman Lollar is a new man under Marion's managing. A journeyman backstop under former White Sox Manager Paul Richards, he is now hitting around .270; his pegs to second scoot low and fast; he handles his pitchers with skill. And the pitchers have responded. Newcomer Dick Donovan has racked up a 13-3 record. Veteran Billy Pierce, pitching tight ball, has won 7 and lost 6. Harry Byrd, a castoff Oriole...