Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although aware of the Fenway Park management's policy to forbid football in its ball park, home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, Sullivan said, "That was six years ago; people change their minds...
...team needs a home for about two years until a proposed stadium is built in Norwood by a group that Sullivan also heads. The modern, all-weather field will be fit for baseball as well as football and has been mentioned as a future home for the Red Sox...
...Scrappy, chaw-jawed Second Baseman Nellie Fox, 31, whose slick fielding (.988) and slap-hitting (.306; two home runs, 149 singles) led the Chicago White Sox to their first pennant in 40 years, won the American League's most-valuable-player award of the Baseball Writers' Association. The National League's MVP: Slugging Shortstop Ernie Banks, 28, of the fifth-place Chicago Cubs, who led the majors in runs batted in (143), finished second in the majors in home runs (45), set a league fielding record for shortstops (.985), became the first player ever...
...President did not think so. The TV scandal touched off by the confessions of Charles Van Doren (see SHOW BUSINESS) seemed to leave the U.S. "bewildered," said he. It reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think...
Most important of all, the Dodgers found they could stop the White Sox cold whenever they pleased merely by calling in Larry Sherry to have some fun on the mound. Admits Chicago Manager Al Lopez: "Sherry was the difference...