Word: pennants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southworth's trouble in Boston was deeper and more recent. It began last winter after Southworth had masterminded a mediocre collection of misfits and castoffs to the 1948 National League pennant. When his ballplayers wanted more money, they heard from the front office that "Southworth doesn't think you're worth any more than you're getting." As the 1949 season wore on, the Braves split into three or four camps-some for Southworth, some against him, and some just against each other...
...Player of the year. Boston was pleased, but Manhattan sportwriters erupted with such comments as "greatest farce ever perpetrated in sports in the guise of an official poll." They wanted to know why the award, voted by the Baseball Writers' Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York Yankees, e.g., Shortstop Phil Rizzuto or Relief Pitcher Joe Page. One reason: the voting took place a few days before the end of the season, before the collapse of the Red Sox and Slugger Williams in their final series with the Yankees...
...every time he crossed the plate he scowled up at Veeck's box. Cleveland thought it knew exactly what Boudreau was muttering-"That'll show him." Boudreau in his biggest year in baseball showed the boss so well that the Indians won their first American League pennant in 28 years. When they also beat the Boston Braves in the World Series it was the signal for Bill Veeck to throw a party...
...fleet-footed Jackie Robinson, 30, the first man to cross the color line into the major leagues, was voted by the sportwriters Most Valuable Player in the National League. As second baseman for the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, he had been the league's batting champion (.342) and leading base stealer. The award would give him extra leverage in prying more salary out of Boss Branch Rickey than the estimated $22,000 he got this year. Said Robinson: "I don't know how much there was to those rumors about Mr. Rickey wanting to sell...
...this strange and bloody epoch of the sea," pipe Publishers Doubleday, forgetting in their rapture that "epic" is the proper pennant to hoist on such occasions, "Robert Graves turns his incomparable talents to the remarkable Ysabel Barreto -beautiful and dangerous-who used treachery, intrigue, and love to become the first woman admiral in the Spanish navy and then embarked on a perilous voyage, filled with incredible and startling adventures, to the Solomon Islands in search of gold...