Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better believe it." Five months and 150-odd games ago, the American League set forth to find a champion. Last week it was still looking. In three days the lead changed hands three times, with the three top teams-the Yankees, the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox-separated by only a half-game. Very unnerving-but great fun for the also rans. And nobody was getting a bigger chuckle out of all that chaos than Dean Chance, 23, a righthanded pitcher for the sixth-place Los Angeles Angels. Last week Chance made life miserable...
...Look. This week it will be Baltimore's turn and then Chicago's. Poor Orioles and White Sox. So far this season, Chance has won 19 games, including five two-hitters, a three-hitter and four four-hitters. He has lost only seven, four of them 1-0 heartbreakers. His ten shutouts put him within striking distance of the 54-year-old American League record of 13, and his earned-run average is an astonishing 1.49. The last big-league pitcher to go through a season with an ERA that low was Walter Johnson...
...Bauer won his Cs in baseball and basketball-plus a permanently misshapen nose (the result of a collision with an opponent's elbow under the basket). After graduation, Hank worked for a while repairing furnaces in a beer-bottling plant. In 1941 his older brother Herman, a White Sox farm hand, wangled him a pro tryout. Hank landed with Oshkosh in the Class D Wisconsin State League. But he hardly burned up the bushes. Alternating between infield and outfield, he batted a measly .262. The manager thought he might be a pitcher. Earned-run average in three games...
Pitcher Bob Turley served up a gopher ball to the Tigers' Harvey Kuenn. "It was right at the Yankee Stadium score-board," says Turley, now a pitching coach with the Boston Red Sox. "Hank couldn't quite catch up to the ball. But somehow, God only knows how, he got close enough to tip it with his bare hand -and flip it right into Mickey Mantle's glove. Hank crashed into the Scoreboard, bounced off and trotted back to right-field." Then there was the last game of the 1951 World Series, against the New York Giants...
...Orioles reserved 47 rooms at Philadelphia's Warwick Hotel for the second week in October. By week's end it looked as though they might just be picking up the keys. But it was going to be a battle all the way. The second-place Chicago White Sox split with Detroit and beat Cleveland 6-5. The third-place Yankees lost two out of three to Los Angeles, mostly because they scored only six runs in 27 innings- none at all in the nine pitched by Los Angeles Ace Dean Chance, who won his 17th. But they rebounded...