Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midwinter, and Martin Whitford Marion, manager of the Chicago White Sox, was already lost in a bright dream of spring. His team, he announced with admirable brevity, was going to win the American League pennant. Sportswriters snickered. It would be a close race all right. Maybe the Sox would finish third-after the Yanks and the Indians...
...Dodgers have their wish, that strong right arm will never give out; but if it does, Newk has no worry. His batting eye is so sharp that he could be taught to shag flies and turned into a good outfielder. (Impressed by the same kind of hitting. Boston Red Sox Manager Ed Barrow turned a good pitcher named George Herman Ruth into an outfielder in 1918.) So far this season, Newk boasts a .406 batting average and a slugging percentage (calculated by dividing total times at bat into total bases reached on hits) of .797. With six home runs...
Died. Harry Agganis, 25, Boston Red Sox first baseman and former Boston University football and baseball star; of a massive pulmonary embolism; in Cambridge, Mass...
Divorced. Theodore Samuel (Ted) Williams, 36, Boston Red Sox slugger; by Doris Soule Williams, 34; after eleven years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami (see SPORT...
...Nothing if not stubborn, Ted Williams, hard-hitting holdout from the Boston Red Sox, refused to return to baseball until his divorce was final; a big salary might complicate the court's decision on settlement. The layoff seemed hardly worthwhile. A Miami court ordered him to hand over $50,000, a $42,000 house, $6,000 for court costs, a 1954 Cadillac and some other financial odds and ends. Ted wasted not a moment getting back on the Boston payroll...