Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year, he does not have the same daredevil go-go Sox who whomped the league five years ago. Now he wins by platooning. He substitutes one unknown player for another...
...White Sox made this year's All-Star team. They are sixth in the league in batting (.248), ninth in home runs (86). Lopez has taught them that weak hitters should be choosy swingers-and so they lead the league in walks. The Sox are also opportunists: 39 of their 75 victories have been decided by two runs or less. "We steal a run, we cheat a run, we beg or borrow a run," says Lopez...
...other teams, has compiled an earned-run average of 2.76, easily tops in the majors. Lopez got Juan Pizarro (16-6) from Milwaukee, John Buzhardt (10-6) from Philadelphia, and Ray Herbert (6-4) from Kansas City. Gary Peters (13-7) and Joe Horlen (9-8) came up from Sox farms. In the bullpen, ex-Oriole Hoyt Wilhelm at 41 has brought his dancing knuckle ball into no fewer than 56 games this year. He has 17 official saves and an E.R.A. of 2.27. And then there is Eddie Fisher (ex-Giant), another knuckler, who has not lost a game...
Catching the Averages. The one team the White Sox seemed unable to beat was the Yankees. The Sox lost twelve of their first 14 games against the Yanks. But Lopez merely shrugged. "The law of averages has got to catch up," he said, and so it did-last week. In a four-game series in Chicago, his Sox only got two extra base hits. But they scored 15 runs, while holding the Yanks to a measly six, and won all four games...
Died. Oscar ("Happy") Felsch, 73, key figure in the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" baseball scandal, the team's shagging center fielder who unwittingly broke open the mess, admitted helping throw the World Series to Cincinnati when he fell for a reporter's "all-the-others-have-confessed" ruse and angrily blurted: "Why those wise guys! At least I already have my $5,000"; of a liver ailment; in Milwaukee...