Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cherry Point, N.C., photographers caught the former Boston Red Sox outfield Slugger Ted Williams warming up in another league. Recalled to active duty in the Marine Corps last May, Captain Williams, who served three years with the Marines in World War II, one of them as aviation instructor at Pensacola, is getting a refresher course in the finer points of fighter planes...
Died. Hubert B. ("Dutch") Leonard,* 60, southpaw pitcher who fireballed his way to fame in the American League (1913-25), later made a fortune as a California grape-grower; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Fresno. In 1914, on the pitching staff of the Boston Red Sox (which also included Babe Ruth), he had his best season, winning 19 games and losing five, for an average of 1.01earned runs a game. After helping Boston to world championships in 1915 and 1916, he quit baseball in 1925, retired to his Fresno ranch, where he could sit in any room...
...When the Chicago White Sox's Righthander Charles Robertson, pitching against the Detroit Tigers, turned the trick...
...just so happens that the Red Sox did the only thing possible to preserve their already slim pennant chances...
...only Fred Hatfield--a good fielder and hitter--represents a real loss. But then, you can't get something for nothing. And look at what the Sox...