Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston Red Sox veterans, most of whom have been in training only a few days, routed the rookies who have been here for two weeks, 9 to 3, in an intersquad game. Catcher Gus Niarhos, who Made only six hits all last season, lashed out three today in leading a 12-hit. Sox attack against three rooky pitchers...
...Korea, Marine Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugging outfielder, finished his first combat mission as a jet pilot. In a 200-plane strike at a Red supply center near Pyongyang, Williams' Panther jet was struck by ground fire, and started to blaze. With a dead radio, wing flaps and wheels stuck and the airspeed indicator out, he nursed his jet back to the nearest forward air base, where he walked away from a crash landing. Said he: "There was nothing to do but belly...
...World War II, went into another combat inning. His score for the first two days in Korea: two enemy railroad bridges destroyed with 1,000-lb. bombs. Scheduled to join him and fellow Marine aviators in Korea this week: Captain Ted Williams, sometime outfielder for Boston's Red Sox...
Major-league baseball was confronted with one of its worst scandals since the Black Sox series of 1919: the owner of one of the nation's most famous baseball clubs was heading for a prison cell. The culprit was a trim, glib little St. Louis lawyer turned businessman (real estate) named Fred M. Saigh, who parlayed $60,800 in borrowed cash into a $4,000,000 baseball empire...
...first Crimson baseball player to go into organized ball since Ira Godin was signed by the Red Sox three years ago. Godin, however, turned up with arm trouble in a Triple A league, and as far as is known, is still nursing...