Word: turley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Gate. By week's end the Fourth of July standings left the Yankees teetering in fourth place by virtue of virtuous Bob Turley's one-hitter against Washington. What happens next is anyone's guess. It may not be baseball, but the fans love it. Attendance is up 15% for the league, and a ringing 38% for the Yankees at home. As for the bookmakers, all the yak about the Yankees could not be sillier. They have the Yankees as 8 to 5 favorites to win: Cleveland is 4 to 1, Chicago and Detroit...
...puny .243 v. .266 at the same time last year, when they led the league by 6½ games. The Bronx Bombers had been shut out five times in the first six weeks of 1959. The pitching was poor too. Last week Yankee Aces Whitey Ford and Bob Turley were both knocked out of the box in the first inning. Muttered Manager Casey Stengel: "Those pitchers of ours will have to do a little better or we won't get to see them around here much longer...
Norm Siebern's eighth-inning home run combined with Bob Turley's two-hit pitching yesterday to enable the New York Yankees to come up with a 3-2 victory over Boston's Red Sox in their twice-postponed opener. The only hits for the Red Sox were a double by Pete Runnels in the seventh inning and a single by Vic Wertz in the ninth...
After walking leadoff man Don Buddin, Turley retired 17 men in a row until he walked Buddin again in the seventh. Yesterday's win puts the Yankees in fourth place...
...Boston Red Sox Slugger (35 home runs, 122 runs batted in) Jackie Jensen was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player, became the first player on a non-pennant winner to win the award since Yogi Berra did it in 1954. Runner-up: Yankee Pitcher Bob Turley.