Word: winningest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oklahoma. Syracuse's winningest coach (60-33-2) is unawed. "We take 'em a game at a time," says Coach Schwartzwalder. "We're just country folks...
...chief reason the Pirates are still in the National League pennant race. He has won ten without a defeat, saved four more games for other Pittsburgh pitchers. In fact, he has not lost a game since May 30, 1958. So far this season, Face is the major leagues' winningest pitcher. At week's end his earned-run average was a stylish 1.12. In 40⅓ innings, he had walked only seven batters, struck...
...minutes. The Giants' Utility Infielder Ed Bressoud led off with a home run. Outfielder Willie Mays hit a triple to deepest center field. First Baseman Orlando Cepeda walloped a 450-ft. home run, and Outfielder Jackie Brandt followed with another homer-all off Ike Delock, Boston's winningest pitcher last year. In his box behind third base, the Giants' President Horace Stoneham smiled broadly. "This is a real team," he said. "We'll be there all the way this season, and if we win it, there may be no stopping us for five years to come...
...Bill Hartack, 24, the nation's winningest jockey for the past three years in a row, booted home the 2,000th winner of his career aboard Herald Wind at Atlantic City, N.J. Three days later he was set down 15 days for rough riding and throwing a punch at Fellow Jockey Jimmy Johnson, his second suspension in less than a month...
...fine, healthful time watching, and a few had a fine, even more healthful time winning. When they looked up from their form sheets, they saw some of the finest thoroughbreds in the world. When they stepped up to bet, they could let their money ride with the country's winningest jockey. His name: William John Hartack Jr. If jockeys had their own colors, his would have to be red (for guts) and green (for money...