Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in a Red Sox uniform after his discharge as a Marine captain, and signed up (for an estimated $50,000) for the rest of the season, Ted Williams stepped up for his first batting practice in over a year, sprayed Boston's Fenway Park with line drives, quit 15 minutes later with a quarter-sized blister on his right palm...
...baseball adage holds that a traded player always does better with his new club. No player in recent years has proved the rule so remarkably as Virgil ("Fire") Trucks, a 34-year-old fireballing righthander currently keeping the Chicago White Sox on the New York Yankees' heels...
...active duty next week after his release from the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., where he is taking treatment for an ear infection. Aviator Williams, with 38 Korean combat missions behind him, will play "the last six weeks of the season in the Boston outfield," said happy Red Sox Manager Lou Boudreau...
...Chicago, where the white-hot White Sox at week's end had won 29 of their last 35 games, Mrs. Mildred Krahn, 34, a baseball fan, withdrew a suit against her husband for separate maintenance. He had called baseball "foolish," she said, objected to her going to a game, and even took a belt to her. But recently he began to watch the White Sox on TV. "He came to me and told me he was wrong about baseball," said Mrs. Krahn. "He's out right now, trying to buy tickets...
...Louis, the hapless baseball Browns set an unenviable major-league mark: 20 losses in a row in their home park, breaking the record set by the Boston Red Sox in 1906. Said Browns Owner Bill Veeck, who has been trying to move the Browns' franchise out of St. Louis: "Frankly, I don't know whether the Browns are coming or going...