Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...click, thanks largely to some astute trades pulled off by moonfaced General Manager Bill DeWitt, a wily merchandiser of men who joined the Reds only last fall. In a complex deal, DeWitt got Milwaukee Pitcher Joey Jay, the first Little Leaguer to make the majors, and Chicago White Sox Third Baseman Gene Freese. Late in April, he got peppery Second Baseman Don Blasingame from San Francisco. That seemed to do the trick. Three days after Blasingame arrived, the Reds took off on a nine-game winning streak, by the end of May were in first...
Maris, with four round-trippers in six days, was only one of a crowd: St. Louis Cardinal First Baseman Bill White, Boston Red Sox Catcher Jim Pagliaroni, New York Yankee Catcher Elston Howard also belted four apiece. Slender Milwaukee Rightfielder Hank Aaron topped them all with five in six days. Baltimore Oriole First Sacker Jim Gentile poked only two, but both came with the bases full; with the season only half gone, Gentile thus tied the American League record of four grand slams in a full season, one away from the major league mark of five set by Chicago...
...Schoolboy Lew Krausse Jr., 18, although his own father was scouting him for the A's. A week after he was signed, Lew shut out the Los Angeles Angels 4-0 on three hits, and last week he had a two-hit shutout going before the Boston Red Sox scored three runs in the seventh to beat...
...deportment compared to last year, when he was thumbed from seven games, had the league in an uproar over such antics as heaving an orange and a baseball (both missed) at Bill Veeck's absurd $300,000 Comiskey Park Scoreboard, which fires rockets and blows horns when White Sox players hit home runs...
...Sox, currently in fourth place in the American League, will hold down Fenway Park at intervals during the summer. Prices range from $1 in the bleachers to $3 for the best box seat...