Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After winning three Air Medals for flying 38 missions in Korea, Marine Captain Ted Williams, 35, on military leave from his $100,000-a-year job with the Boston Red Sox, was ordered back to the U.S. In order, Panther-Jet Pilot Williams is expected to receive 1) treatment for a stubborn ear-and-nose ailment, 2) his release from service. Baseball? Says Ted: "It [will] be one tough struggle to get back into shape...
...York, Yankee Johnny Mize became the 93rd player in major-league history to hit safely 2,000 times. The only other members of the 2,000-hit club in active service: Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, Bob Elliott of the Chicago White Sox...
...Boston, during a seventh-inning bombardment of the last-place Detroit Tigers, the Red Sox 1) scored 17 runs, three of them by Catcher Sammy White, 2) clouted 14 hits, three of them by Leftfielder Gene Stephens, to set four modern baseball records for hits & runs in a single inning. Boston's winning score...
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...least a perfunctory glance from the baseball scouts. But nobody seemed interested in glancing Mickey's way. The Whiz Kids' manager, Barney Barnett, tried to get the St. Louis Cardinals interested. They did not answer Barnett's letter. As they will long remember, ivory hunters for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox also passed up the chance to give Mickey Charles Mantle a farmclub tryout...