Word: sluggers
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...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...
...Elephants scored their two runs in the sixth on two singles and two infield outs. Pitcher Dick Saul was the leading slugger for Eliot with two doubles...
Only three positions are definitely settled: Bill Goodman catching, Win Carduff at second base, and Ben Akillian a center field. Jack Donelan will play left field when he isn't pitching and will bat clean-up until somebody else proves a more reliable slugger...
Bostonians were not surprised to see the Red Sox leading their league. In Slugger Ted Williams (batting .367) and other stars, the Sox had plenty of obvious talent. Manager Joe McCarthy, though new to the team this year (TIME, Aug. 9), had brought them along beautifully. But what really pleased Boston was the performance of the unglamorous Braves, who have not captured the flag since 1914. What was the secret of the 1948 Braves? Puzzled fans decided it must be the same factor that had put the Sox out in front, only more so -a manager...
...began his big-league career as a crack southpaw pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. But he was also a slugger without peer, and when he clouted most of his record 714 home runs, he wore a New York Yankee uniform, played the outfield. Son of a Baltimore saloonkeeper, he was brought up in a Baltimore school for delinquents, and he never quite grew up. In his first years in baseball, he scoffed at training rules, took his drinks where he found them, abused umpires, once chased up into the stands after an abusive...