Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spur-of-the-moment party out to see the Washington Senators win a close one (7-6) from the Boston Red Sox. got two autographed baseballs (one after a homer) from Senator Slugger Harmon Killebrew to give to grandson David. Ike laughed at a photographer's suggestion that Press Secretary James Hagerty, a dedicated New York Yankee fan, ought to replace cellar-dwelling Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. Quipped the President: "He couldn't do much worse...
...pills do more harm than good in sports where skill or judgment is paramount, e.g., a football quarterback does not usually need to be keyed up but calmed down. Said Ed Froelich, trainer for the Chicago White Sox: "What sense does it make to hop somebody up today, and tomorrow he's deader than a mackerel and loses you a ball game?" As for the A.M.A.'s observation that the use of pep pills can be detected by urinalysis, one athletic director commented: "I'd hate to have athletics get to the point where...
Died. Edward A. Walsh, 78, one of baseball's great pitchers, whose dazzling spitball won 40 games in 1908; of cancer; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Walsh won an average of 24 games a season during his peak years (1906-12) with the Chicago White Sox, pitched a record total of 464 innings in one season, but was so overworked that he faded fast in his early 303. He never made more than $6,500 a year, and although elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1946, had to eke out a living on a pittance...
...Holy Cross coach, Jack Barry, who played for Connie Mack's Athletics and managed the Red Sox in 1917, last night bewailed the fact that four of his stars are ineligible to compete this year because they have signed contracts with major league clubs. As a result, Barry has had to construct a team largely out of unproven sophomores, who so far have not shown any great ability. His two remaining seniors, pitchers Bob DeFino and Jim Perina, are both excellent players. However, Barry has slated George Malonowski to hurl today. A sophomore, he may provide the Crimson with...
...date, B.C. has compiled an unimpressive record of three wins against four losses and a tie, but, as in many cases, this record belies the facts. B.C. coach Eddie Pellagrini, ex-utility infielder for the Red Sox, yesterday bemoaned the fact that his team, though a powerful group of hitters, has spent most of its time driving the ball into the waiting gloves of opposing fielders...