Word: wynn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BEATRICE P. WYNN Covina Highlands, Calif...
Marv Grissom, who relieved Sal Maglie in the eighth inning, got credit for the victory over Bob Lemon, who went all the way. Today, John Antonelli will probably face Early Wynn in the second game of the Series...
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...
Clearly, he has kept working. Behind the Indians' fine pitching staff, Wynn, Lemon, Garcia, Feller & Co., he almost always turns in a creditable performance. At the plate he is always a threat. In all pennant-hungry Cleveland, there is no happier sight than Al Rosen, firmly established in the batter's box. The ball steams in, his hips swing in a fast little shake, his left leg lifts for a quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby...
Louis Calhern and Walter Pidgeon do most of the slowpoke moralizing. The action is in the capable hands of Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn, Van Johnson and Newcomer Dewey Martin. Wynn is excellent as a retread veteran who wants to come out of the war with honor, but alive, and is therefore fated for an early death -shown in an appalling sequence, taken from official Government film, of the crash of a plane on a flight deck...