Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...league seems to shape up as a four-team race among New York, Chicago, Baltimore, and Cleveland. Because of their brilliant and experienced pitching staff, the White Sox seem the most logical candidate for the American League pennant...
...compiled 1.88 earned run average, which was second best in the league. Peters, rookie of the year in 1963, won 20 games last season and should be a star for many, many years. Pizarro had an excellent 19 mark in 1964. Aging knuokleballer Hoyt Wilhelm heads a strong White Sox bullpen. In 73 games last year, Wilhelm won 12, lost 9, saved 21, and recorded...
This quartet gave the White Sox the best pitching staff in the league last year, and a young rookie named Bruce Howard could make it even better this season. Howard had a 15-8 record at Indianapolis and joined the White Sox in September. In 22 innings of pitching he yielded two earned runs, struck out 17 men, and won two games...
...Chicago's hitting were as good as its pitching, the White Sox would be a shoo-in for the pennant. But you can't have everything, and manager Al Lopez has always put a premium on pitching, speed, and sound defense. Tho only three reliable batters on the Sox are outfielder Floyd Robinson (.301), first baseman Bill Skowron (.282, 17 homers), and infielder Pete Ward (.282, 23 homers). The White Sox won't leave too many opposing pitchers shell-shocked, but with Pizzaro, Peters, Horlen, Howard, and Wilhelm, they don't need...
...anna's of baseball, on every from sandlot teams to the Boston Red Sox, are strewn with unsuccessful teams which had hitting, defense, speed, power--and no pitching. Barring a recurrence of the 1964 miracle, Harvard's pitching is going to cause problems this year, and if you haven't got it there, you must haven...