Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every minute of the most exciting baseball season in years. In San Francisco, stockbrokers, merchants and plain workers are getting away from their offices early to go out to Seals Stadium and cheer home the National League-leading Giants. In Chicago, when the American League-leading White Sox get a man aboard, the rhythmical clapping swells into waves, and a chant rolls out of the stands: "Go - go - go!" Much more than two pennant races is fascinating the fans this summer. Teams far down in the standings have somehow taken on a new glamour. In Washington, the Senators...
...American League the White Sox have already drawn 76,000 more than they did in all of 1958, and in Cleveland, attendance has doubled, is a whopping 346,000 ahead of last year's final figure of 663,805. In the National League, the San Francisco Giants have been playing Seals Stadium (cap. 23,000) to an average of 18,000 all year long, and the Los Angeles Dodgers drew 120,000 in two big games with the Milwaukee Braves during their last home stand...
Yankee Dolor. In part, the new life in the American League can be laid to New York's Yankees, for this is the year the Yankees seem certain to lose the pennant. With the Yanks floundering, the new hit-less-wonder White Sox and the rebuilt Indians are playing like champions, and up and down the league the old also-rans are hustling with new life. Similarly, the National League's vigor can be traced in part to the troubles of the Milwaukee Braves, the league's soundest team at season's start, whose attack...
...balanced ball club, the same team, in fact, that beat the Braves in three straight games to salvage the 1958 World Series. Nor has the competition improved that impressively. The league-leading Cleveland Indians rely heavily on players who could not stay with the present Yankees. The Chicago White Sox have little power; the Detroit Tigers have erratic pitching. Growls Stengel: "We oughta be goddamned ashamed we ain't trying enough...
...boats up the Thames that the undefeated heavyweight varsity swamped the Thames Rowing Club, and the lightweights beat London University, to bring off the first sweep of both major events by a U.S. challenger in the history of the 120-year-old Henley Royal Regatta. ¶ The Boston Red Sox were last in the American League race, and to Owner Tom Yawkey the next move was obvious. Out went Manager Mike ("Pinky") Higgins, 50. In came Billy Jurges, 51, the old National League shortstop (Chicago, New York), who declared an equally obvious formula for pulling up his Sox: "Ted Williams...