Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between Chicago and Baltimore, two teams the experts figured to get their World Series loot courtesy of the commissioner's office. But Hank Bauer's surprisingly muscular Orioles had been giving the league fits all season. Now surprise again. Halfway through the week, Al Lopez' White Sox were in first place-one-half game ahead going into an eight-game home-and-home series with the Orioles...
...most popular men in baseball, and not a little of his acclaim stems from the fact that he is the only American League manager in 16 years to take a pennant away from the Yankees. He did it with Cleveland in 1954, with the White Sox...
...York Yankees, "nobody asked me to buy the club. Mickey and I would have bought it." But others were not so amused last week upon hearing that the Yankees had been sold to the Columbia Broadcasting System. "I think it's lousy," said Chicago White Sox Owner Arthur Allyn, who objected to the hurry-up way the league had polled its owners for permission. "This is a hell of a way to run the American League," roared Kansas City Owner Charles Finley, who objects to everything. But the league's eight other owners said...
Bauer's get-tough tactics are paying off handsomely. The Orioles started the season by taking four straight from the Yanks and the Chicago White Sox. Two weeks ago, they swept three in a row from New York. Now it is July 4-and they are coasting along in first place, four games ahead of the pack. For a team that wound up seventh in 1962 and fourth last year, the Orioles seem too good to be true. Third Baseman Brooks Robinson (a .251-hitter in 1963), is batting a lusty .314. Outfielder Boog Powell has 20 homers. Rookie...
...pennants will be flying over Fenway Park next October, but the Sox can be counted on to put on a good show; they are playing consistently exciting, if not consistently winning, baseball. And if the Sox can come up with a couple of reliable starting pitchers, "next year" may be just around the corner...