Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team's actions on the field, are all judged by intricate accounting. But when it comes to judging pennant races, the fans themselves are the most important statistic. Last week, as the season rounded the late-summer turn, big-league attendance figures testified to one of the tightest stretch drives in years. Fans were piling into Milwaukee's County Stadium at a record 40,000-a-game clip. Cleveland had already surpassed its 1953 home-attendance figure. The Dodgers and Giants set turnstiles spinning whenever they met. The race was so close, a man was hard...
Front-Running Indians. In the American League, front-running Cleveland was an odds-on favorite with the men who make book on baseball. Outpaced in the stretch three years in a row, the Indians were now playing the steady, workmanlike baseball of champions. Their first-line pitchers (Wynn, Lemon, Garcia) have turned in some of the best performances of the season. Onetime Fireballer "Rapid" Robert Feller, now grown gracefully ancient (he will be 36 in November), has surprised even himself with a fine 11-2 record. Rookies Ray Narleski and Don Mossi have been fogging their high, hard ones past...
...Reynolds have been taking their lumps on the pitching mound, Bob Grim, Eddie Ford, Harry Byrd, Tom Morgan and Jim McDonald have turned in 50 victories among them. Mantle, Noren and Skowron are living up to advance billing and outhitting such veterans as Woodling and Collins. Now, in the stretch sprint, the Yankees will face teams that have been their cousins all season. If they take up their old, winning ways, professional Yankee haters will begin to worry that Casey Stengel will take his sixth pennant...
Sutton, with boundless campaign funds, hopped around the state in a helicopter and harangued voters for as long as 27 hours at a stretch on radio talkathons...
...were still scattering affable salaam aleikums around the airport, Russian-embassy personnel arrived. Their eagerness was understandable : Russia is trying hard to woo not only its own Moslem population of about 30 million (which has often been rebellious and subject to purges) but the 310 million Moslems whose lands stretch in a strategic arc from Casablanca to the Sulu...