Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shifting Line-Up. As the season wore on, Durocher made a series of radical shifts, fumbling for the right combination. Outfielder Bobby Thomson, a Scottish-born introvert, was brought back into the thick of things at the third base "hot corner." His slumping batting average boomed from .226 to .289. Monte Irvin, jittery in an unfamiliar first base position, was moved to the outfield. Outfielder Whitey Lockman was switched to first. Irvin's batting average jumped 50 points, and he ended the season leading the league in runs batted...
They set the stage just right, entering the ninth inning behind, 4 to 1, getting one run across, standing Alvin Dark on third (in place of Don Mueller, who injured himself reaching that position the last time) and Whitey Lockman on second. Bobby Thomson was supposed to let one strike go by and hit the next pitch into the left field seats. But Bob Kuzava failed to take the role of Ralph Branca seriously. His first pitch was a ball, and Bob Thomson couldn't find his place. With appalling inability to ad lib, Thomson lifted a fly to left...
Chuck Dressen, Dodger manager, lifted Newcombe and put in Branca to pitch to Thomson. The Staten Island Scot took hold of Branca's second pitch and knocked it into the left field stands to win the ball game for the Giants...
...Before Thomson came up in the ninth inning, he had already collected two hits, one of them a double. But he had also made two bonehead plays, one of which let in one run and kept the rally going in the Dodgers' big eighth inning...
...years, walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, has spent part of each summer teaching younger musicians to conduct. Last week, after a visit to "Papa" Monteux's 1951 class (50 students) in Hancock, Me., the New York Herald, Tribune's Critic Virgil Thomson wrote a report on how he does...