Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conference's champion New York Giants. ¶ Looking for more batting power, the New York Yankees staged the biggest trade of the off-season by giving up aging (37) Outfielder Hank Bauer, erratic Pitcher Don Larsen (1959 record: 6-7), fumble-thumbed Outfielder Norm Siebern, and Reserve First Baseman Marv Throneberry to the Kansas City Athletics. To the Yanks in return: rising young (25) Outfielder Roger Maris, who in early-season was leading the American League in hitting before he was stricken with appendicitis and slumped to .273. The Athletics also threw in two other players, Infielder Joe DeMaestri...
Died. Jim Bottomley, 59, jaunty left-handed first baseman who helped bat the St. Louis Cardinals to the National League pennant four times in a decade (1922-32), in one game (1924) batted in twelve runs on six hits, the major league record; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
Baseball's MVP trophy was won last season by George N. Harrington '59, an outstanding second baseman and one of the team's leading hitters. Harrington, also voted the most valuable player in basketball last season, was not present to accept the award...
Boulris, last year's third baseman, also won the football team's most valuable player award last week...
...Scrappy, chaw-jawed Second Baseman Nellie Fox, 31, whose slick fielding (.988) and slap-hitting (.306; two home runs, 149 singles) led the Chicago White Sox to their first pennant in 40 years, won the American League's most-valuable-player award of the Baseball Writers' Association. The National League's MVP: Slugging Shortstop Ernie Banks, 28, of the fifth-place Chicago Cubs, who led the majors in runs batted in (143), finished second in the majors in home runs (45), set a league fielding record for shortstops (.985), became the first player ever...