BOB CRUES -
Given name: ROBERT FULTON CRUES
Played : 1939 - 1949
Borne Dec. 31, 1918 Celina, Texas
Died Dec. 26, 1986
In 1948, Crues went on a rampage through the dusty and windswept ballparks of the Southwest, driving in 254 runs in just 140 games, dwarfing the major league record of 191 RBI set by Hack Wilson with the Cubs in 1930. Playing for the Amarillo Gold Sox of the class C West Texas-New Mexico League, Crues drove in almost two runs per game that summer. Two! The closest anyone ever came to his total was former teammate Joe Bauman who drove in 224 one season. Tony Lazzeri, who set the old record with 222, had to play in 197 games in 1925 to reach that mark at Salt Lake City in the Pacific Coast League. As the 21st century dawned, it seemed possible that Crues' RBI record will be one of the rare ones never to be broken. Bob tied Hauser's record of 69 with two games left in the season. His try for the 70th drew a record crowd of 4,851 for a season-ending Labor Day doubleheader with Lubbock. Ironically, Secory, the umpire who might have cost him a home run in Abilene, was working behind the plate
Before the 1943 season, like most other men his age, the 24-year-old Crues went into the Army. Bob contracted pneumonia and was hospitalized before seeing a day of duty. After the illness he was sent to Texas to play baseball, keeping him in the United States. But he was playing in the outfield, not on the mound.
1949 would be his last big season. He hit .365, 28 homers and drove in 129 runs. He continued to play at San Angelo in the Longhorn League, then at Lubbock, Amarillo, and Borger in the WT-NM again. But his output declined, and in 1953 he retired at age 34, just 11 games into the season. He was hitting only .195, but four of his eight hits were home runs, and he had batted in 12 runs, an average of more than one a game.
In five full seasons and parts of five others, Crues hit 232 home runs and drove in 905 runs.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
TONY LAZZERI, 60 HOMERS CLUB MEMBER
TONY LAZZERI
nickname: POOSH
played: 1903 - 1946
MLB ALL-STAR : 1933
HALL of FAME : 1991
Lazzeri was a prominent member of the 1927 Yankees' "Murderers' Row" lineup and the second baseman on five World Championship Yankee clubs. He had seven 100-RBI seasons and four times hit as many as 18 home runs. His excellent glove, driving leadership, and superior baseball instincts made him the hero of Italian-Americans, as their first superstar . He was known as "the quiet man of the Yankees." Though an epileptic, he never had an on-the-field seizure in his 12 Yankee seasons.
Playing for Salt Lake City (Pacific Coast League) in 1925, assisted by the altitude and a 200-game schedule, Lazzeri set since-broken pro baseball records for HR (60) and RBI (222) and a still-standing record for runs (202). The following year, he played 155 games for New York. With two out and the bases loaded in the seventh inning, he struck out against Grover Cleveland Alexander in the Game Seven of the 1926 World Series, won by the Cardinals 3-2. The famous incident damaged Lazzeri's reputation as a clutch hitter. Yet Miller Huggins, his manager, said: "Anyone can strike out, but ballplayers like Lazzeri come along once in a generation."
From 1927 through 1930, and again in 1932, Lazzeri batted .300 or better; his .354 in 1929 put him among the league leaders. On May 24, 1936 he became the first major leaguer to hit two grand slams in one game and set an AL record with 11 RBI.
nickname: POOSH
played: 1903 - 1946
MLB ALL-STAR : 1933
HALL of FAME : 1991
Lazzeri was a prominent member of the 1927 Yankees' "Murderers' Row" lineup and the second baseman on five World Championship Yankee clubs. He had seven 100-RBI seasons and four times hit as many as 18 home runs. His excellent glove, driving leadership, and superior baseball instincts made him the hero of Italian-Americans, as their first superstar . He was known as "the quiet man of the Yankees." Though an epileptic, he never had an on-the-field seizure in his 12 Yankee seasons.
Playing for Salt Lake City (Pacific Coast League) in 1925, assisted by the altitude and a 200-game schedule, Lazzeri set since-broken pro baseball records for HR (60) and RBI (222) and a still-standing record for runs (202). The following year, he played 155 games for New York. With two out and the bases loaded in the seventh inning, he struck out against Grover Cleveland Alexander in the Game Seven of the 1926 World Series, won by the Cardinals 3-2. The famous incident damaged Lazzeri's reputation as a clutch hitter. Yet Miller Huggins, his manager, said: "Anyone can strike out, but ballplayers like Lazzeri come along once in a generation."
From 1927 through 1930, and again in 1932, Lazzeri batted .300 or better; his .354 in 1929 put him among the league leaders. On May 24, 1936 he became the first major leaguer to hit two grand slams in one game and set an AL record with 11 RBI.
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
July 13, 1954 thru Aug. 29, 1954
Aug 29, 1954—SOX MANGLE DUKES IN CIRCUS TILT, 14-7---A tied-up ball game in the eighth inning turned into a comedy of errors for Albuquerque and the playoff-bound Amarillo God sox took advantage of them to score an easy 14-7 win over the dukes in their series opener here last night. An “appreciation night” crowd closely estimated at 2,000 watched in humorous approval as Duke Manager Tom Jordan got the riot started, resulting in the removal of five Albuquerque players—including himself. Goff homered to left to bring in De La Torre to put Amarillo aged, 7-5. Then Kempa singled to left and went to second on a wild pitch to Gil Silve. Then, while Jordan and plate umpire Charlie butler were discussing the count on Silva, Kempa stalked easily down to third base and came home ad the two teams argued on the latter call. After a sit-down strike that lasted over 20 minutes, Jordan, Socha, Bartolomel, Joe Pierre and Bob Flores were tossed out and the Dukes blew sky high. The Sox finished the inning by sending 12 batters to the plat to score nine runs and the easy victory. Albuquerque tied the game up in their half of the eighth on a home run by Joe Pierre.
July 13, 1954 thru Aug. 29, 1954
*Aug. 12, 1954—BETWEEN YOU AND ME by Harry Gilstrap---I Wish the Gold Sox Management had Given me a couple of days’ notice on “Frosty Kennedy Night,” for I’d like to have run this letter before, rather than after, the event. It’s postmarked Baldwin Park, Calif., reached this desk while I was on vacation, and is self-explanatory: “You may wonder at this letter from Southern California, baseball’s national playground, and who could be interested in the Gold Sox Baseball team.** “Mr. Editor, may I introduce myself—I am Forrest E. Kennnedy,Sr., Frosty’s proud father, and just a few days past I was informed of the latest blessed event to Frosty and Jan, so I now am also a very proud Granddad. I gave the greatest admiration and love for little Frosty’s mother, Mrs. Jan Kennedy, now residing in Amarillo.
WEST COAST FEELS ATTENDANCE SLACK, TOO
“I AM A SUBSCRIBER OF YOUR Amarillo News, the reason being, of course, to follow the baseball destiny of Frosty. This year is the first time during the baseball season that his mother, Mrs. Vivian Kennedy, and myself have not visited him where he was currently playing. We certainly miss this season’s visit to your fair city. “ A few days ago one of your co-workers at the sports desk(Editor’s Note: That was Leon Bert) wrote an article concerning the absence of the paying customers at the ball parks in every section of the U.S.A. I must concur with him in all of his observations. It was a masterful analysis of a sinking condition of baseball attendance in general. His terminology of “characters” in baseball seems to be the missing link.*** “Here on the West Coast, the same condition exists, and maybe the Amarillo News heard of this one, and example: the series between the Los Angeles Angels and the fabulous Hollywood Stars is always a bitter cross-town rivalry, but attendance at Hollywood’s Gilmore Field was not quite up to previous par. Now whether the beef between the teams that day was really meant to be, I do not know, but both teams came at each other with bats a-flying for a few minutes. Local police and management finally parted the belligerents. Of course television and all the newspapers had a field day. From then on during the balance of that series there was “no standing room’ for the fans in Gilmore Field. “Baseball fans—you have just such a “character” playing his very level best for the Gold sox in Amarillo. He is doing everything he can to make the game as entertaining and interesting as on player is capable of doing. He has Babe Ruth traits, you know, leading the league in home runs; a little of Stan Musial, batting average .398, a little likeDiMaggio, a lot of runs batted in; quite a few stolen bases last year, I don’t know what he does with them all. His association with umpires is a little like Durocher’s. He carries a good name brand of chewin” tobaccy, but he never chews away from the park.
Real Proud of This “Character,” Frosty
“A little incident in his sunset League days: His Riverside Dons were in Reno playing the Silver Sox: there were about 25 or 30 fans and his father and mother. Other citizens of Reno were playing other games. Frosty and the field umpire got into a friendly argument and had a few loud words. Well! One of Reno reporters made a headline of it. Next night about 300 fans showed up to see a real ball game. By the, Frosty led the league that year, batting .407 , I have a case full of baseball trophies that he has won in past years. “YES, MR. SPORTS Editor, you have quite a “character” playing for our Gold sox team, and win or lose, hero or goat, his father and mother love that baseball “character,”Frosty.”*** This department gladly goes along with the proud Mr. Kennedy in rating Frosty a baseball “character,” and even will add that he’s one of the great ones of West Texas-New Mexico League history. There’s an old sports saying, “He came to play.” It means that the subject is a competitor to the hilt. It applies admirably to Frosty Kennedy, who arrived in Amarillo about an hour before game time one night in early May, bone-weary after driving 800 miles from Burlington, a., without rest and pulling a house trailer, and insisted on getting into a Gold sox uniform and playing both ends of a double header. He hit a home run in one of ‘em, too. He probably should be playing better ball than this, next season. But unless he is, I sincerely hope he’s back with the Gold sox in 1955.
WEST COAST FEELS ATTENDANCE SLACK, TOO
“I AM A SUBSCRIBER OF YOUR Amarillo News, the reason being, of course, to follow the baseball destiny of Frosty. This year is the first time during the baseball season that his mother, Mrs. Vivian Kennedy, and myself have not visited him where he was currently playing. We certainly miss this season’s visit to your fair city. “ A few days ago one of your co-workers at the sports desk(Editor’s Note: That was Leon Bert) wrote an article concerning the absence of the paying customers at the ball parks in every section of the U.S.A. I must concur with him in all of his observations. It was a masterful analysis of a sinking condition of baseball attendance in general. His terminology of “characters” in baseball seems to be the missing link.*** “Here on the West Coast, the same condition exists, and maybe the Amarillo News heard of this one, and example: the series between the Los Angeles Angels and the fabulous Hollywood Stars is always a bitter cross-town rivalry, but attendance at Hollywood’s Gilmore Field was not quite up to previous par. Now whether the beef between the teams that day was really meant to be, I do not know, but both teams came at each other with bats a-flying for a few minutes. Local police and management finally parted the belligerents. Of course television and all the newspapers had a field day. From then on during the balance of that series there was “no standing room’ for the fans in Gilmore Field. “Baseball fans—you have just such a “character” playing his very level best for the Gold sox in Amarillo. He is doing everything he can to make the game as entertaining and interesting as on player is capable of doing. He has Babe Ruth traits, you know, leading the league in home runs; a little of Stan Musial, batting average .398, a little likeDiMaggio, a lot of runs batted in; quite a few stolen bases last year, I don’t know what he does with them all. His association with umpires is a little like Durocher’s. He carries a good name brand of chewin” tobaccy, but he never chews away from the park.
Real Proud of This “Character,” Frosty
“A little incident in his sunset League days: His Riverside Dons were in Reno playing the Silver Sox: there were about 25 or 30 fans and his father and mother. Other citizens of Reno were playing other games. Frosty and the field umpire got into a friendly argument and had a few loud words. Well! One of Reno reporters made a headline of it. Next night about 300 fans showed up to see a real ball game. By the, Frosty led the league that year, batting .407 , I have a case full of baseball trophies that he has won in past years. “YES, MR. SPORTS Editor, you have quite a “character” playing for our Gold sox team, and win or lose, hero or goat, his father and mother love that baseball “character,”Frosty.”*** This department gladly goes along with the proud Mr. Kennedy in rating Frosty a baseball “character,” and even will add that he’s one of the great ones of West Texas-New Mexico League history. There’s an old sports saying, “He came to play.” It means that the subject is a competitor to the hilt. It applies admirably to Frosty Kennedy, who arrived in Amarillo about an hour before game time one night in early May, bone-weary after driving 800 miles from Burlington, a., without rest and pulling a house trailer, and insisted on getting into a Gold sox uniform and playing both ends of a double header. He hit a home run in one of ‘em, too. He probably should be playing better ball than this, next season. But unless he is, I sincerely hope he’s back with the Gold sox in 1955.
July 13, 1954 thru Aug. 29, 1954
*Aug. 11, 1954—MAMA ‘JAN HAS CONNIPITION FIT’ _______ Kempa singles-“Pappy Can’t Score From Second!” ________HEADED FOR THIRD-“He’ll Make It” ________PAPPY SLIPS ROUNDING THIRD—“Oh, No! He’ll Never Make it now.” ______UP AND HEADED HOME—“I Just Can’t Look” _______YOUR SAFE (five photos of Jan Kennedy and son)
GOLD SOX SCITTER BY PLAINVIEW, 1-0—by Harry Gilstrap, Sports Editor—Manager Frank Dempa singled to right field on the three-two pitch with one out in the eighth inning to score Frosty Kennedy, the night’s honoree, from second base and give Len Ruyle and the Gold Sox a 1-0 victory over Plainview last night. It was to have been the first game of a doubleheader. But Kempa and the Ponies’ Jackie Sullivan, who by that time had decided it had been a mistake even to start under such deplorable ground conditions, agreed that a second game inevitably would be an anti-climax and a greater mistake still. Umpire Gene Bothell and Charley Butler, of the same mind, accommodated by calling off the afterpiece, which thus went down the drain altogether, since the clubs aren’t scheduled to meet again this year. Some of the customers made loud sounds of extreme displeasure at the announcement, though how any right-thinking baseball devotee could figure he’d been cheated is beyond understanding. It was, as the score makes option of the gooey muck in which vious, one of the season’s better contests here, almost unbelievably better than could have been expected in particular considerate was played. Gold Sox Field, already muddy as a result of Saturdays and Sunday’s rains, had been drenched again by a later afternoon shower, and the Ponies hadn’t want5ed to play at all. Wonderful to say, however, there was only one error and that, a wide throw by Kempa after his excellent stop an Bill Adelheim in the fourth, quite excusable, It did no harm, incidentally, for Adelheim at once was erased in a double play. Ruyle, posting his 19th victory of the season against 12 losses, which also was his fourth shutout over the Ponies, bad sturdy opposition from veteran Don Tierney, former Gold sox right-hander, who struck out 13, but Len thoroughly deserved his success. He permitted five hits, walked none, and after some difficulty in the first inning allowed no foeman to progress safely as far as third base and only one to reach second. The Sox meantime mounted three strong threats against Rierney, in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, before ending it in the eighth and extra round. It was “Frosty Kennedy night,” the big first baseman, his pretty wife and their baby son receiving gifts from the fans—these, of course, featuring a plentiful supply of eating-tobacco for big Frosty. It would have been nice if he could have won it personally with a homer. Unfortunately from the standpoint of the appropriate, he failed with men on base3 the first three times, once striking out with the bases loaded. But he did turn in the night’s best defensive play, a leaping, one-handed grab of Tom Curley’s drive in the seventh, and eventually had his share of the eighth-inning heroics. He started the lower half of that round by working Tierney for a walk, one of three doled out by Don. Julio de la Torre struck out, swinging. Goose Goff also walked. Then, on the three-two count, Kempa pumped his humpbacked hit between right and center. Kennedy slipped in the mud as he rounded third, almost fell, but recovered and beat Cal Mickelson’s throw, though barely…
GOLD SOX SCITTER BY PLAINVIEW, 1-0—by Harry Gilstrap, Sports Editor—Manager Frank Dempa singled to right field on the three-two pitch with one out in the eighth inning to score Frosty Kennedy, the night’s honoree, from second base and give Len Ruyle and the Gold Sox a 1-0 victory over Plainview last night. It was to have been the first game of a doubleheader. But Kempa and the Ponies’ Jackie Sullivan, who by that time had decided it had been a mistake even to start under such deplorable ground conditions, agreed that a second game inevitably would be an anti-climax and a greater mistake still. Umpire Gene Bothell and Charley Butler, of the same mind, accommodated by calling off the afterpiece, which thus went down the drain altogether, since the clubs aren’t scheduled to meet again this year. Some of the customers made loud sounds of extreme displeasure at the announcement, though how any right-thinking baseball devotee could figure he’d been cheated is beyond understanding. It was, as the score makes option of the gooey muck in which vious, one of the season’s better contests here, almost unbelievably better than could have been expected in particular considerate was played. Gold Sox Field, already muddy as a result of Saturdays and Sunday’s rains, had been drenched again by a later afternoon shower, and the Ponies hadn’t want5ed to play at all. Wonderful to say, however, there was only one error and that, a wide throw by Kempa after his excellent stop an Bill Adelheim in the fourth, quite excusable, It did no harm, incidentally, for Adelheim at once was erased in a double play. Ruyle, posting his 19th victory of the season against 12 losses, which also was his fourth shutout over the Ponies, bad sturdy opposition from veteran Don Tierney, former Gold sox right-hander, who struck out 13, but Len thoroughly deserved his success. He permitted five hits, walked none, and after some difficulty in the first inning allowed no foeman to progress safely as far as third base and only one to reach second. The Sox meantime mounted three strong threats against Rierney, in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, before ending it in the eighth and extra round. It was “Frosty Kennedy night,” the big first baseman, his pretty wife and their baby son receiving gifts from the fans—these, of course, featuring a plentiful supply of eating-tobacco for big Frosty. It would have been nice if he could have won it personally with a homer. Unfortunately from the standpoint of the appropriate, he failed with men on base3 the first three times, once striking out with the bases loaded. But he did turn in the night’s best defensive play, a leaping, one-handed grab of Tom Curley’s drive in the seventh, and eventually had his share of the eighth-inning heroics. He started the lower half of that round by working Tierney for a walk, one of three doled out by Don. Julio de la Torre struck out, swinging. Goose Goff also walked. Then, on the three-two count, Kempa pumped his humpbacked hit between right and center. Kennedy slipped in the mud as he rounded third, almost fell, but recovered and beat Cal Mickelson’s throw, though barely…
July 13, 1954 thru Aug. 29, 1954
July 27, 1954—by Dick Collins---SIX WINS IN A TOW DAILY WORKOUTS TO FILL GAP IN GOLD SOX SCHEDULE---Although Amarillo’s gold Sox are scheduled for four days of baseball leisure there’ll be no rest in the camp, beamed Manager Frank Kempa after his boys won their sixth in a row Monday night and as a result jumped back into the first division. The gold Sox, who blasted Plainview’s Ponies 12-5 here last night to sweep the two-game series, get their brief respite because of schedule changes after Borger’s Gassers dropped out of the West Texas-New Mexico league. Preceding lat night’s game, lovely Miss Susanne Norman was named Miss Amarillo Gold Sox of 1954, Seven beauties competed for the title. Miss Norman was sponsored by Fedway. She will now compete against other baseball queens of the six other cities for the title of Miss West Texas-New Mexico league. Frosty Kennedy scored Amarillo’s 10th run in the eighth when he rounded the bases on Bruzga’s single to right. Kennedy blasted a standup double to left to get on. Rucker then struck out, Balclulis was out by a fielder’s choice and sent Bruzga to second. The ponies intentionally walked Dempa to get to Ruyle, but the side arming curve specialist misread the script and blooped a single down the right field line to sore Bruzga and Kempa.
Aug. 2, 1954—Between YOU and ME—by Harry Gilstrap-----Is just one of many isolated bugs—There probably are millions who will agree, including (though with reservations) this observer. It may be hazarded, too, that perhaps we sports writers do not make enough of the characters we do have, that we may tend to formalize our athletes for reader consumption, that the modern trend away from “corn’ in sports writing actually may gave stripped some of the artificial glamour from the graves. OUR DESK MAN may have isolated one of the bugs which are attacking sports prosperity, but only one of several, I suspect, and not the fatal one, at that. As an interesting paradox, it can be pointed out that the biggest two drawing-cards in professional wrestling, for instance, are Lou Thesz and Vern Gagne, both “straight,” while on the other hand Avarill’s Gold Sox admittedly gave a character (it’s a compliment, Frosty) in Frosty Kennedy, but are not prospering at the gate.
Aug. 2, 1954—Between YOU and ME—by Harry Gilstrap-----Is just one of many isolated bugs—There probably are millions who will agree, including (though with reservations) this observer. It may be hazarded, too, that perhaps we sports writers do not make enough of the characters we do have, that we may tend to formalize our athletes for reader consumption, that the modern trend away from “corn’ in sports writing actually may gave stripped some of the artificial glamour from the graves. OUR DESK MAN may have isolated one of the bugs which are attacking sports prosperity, but only one of several, I suspect, and not the fatal one, at that. As an interesting paradox, it can be pointed out that the biggest two drawing-cards in professional wrestling, for instance, are Lou Thesz and Vern Gagne, both “straight,” while on the other hand Avarill’s Gold Sox admittedly gave a character (it’s a compliment, Frosty) in Frosty Kennedy, but are not prospering at the gate.
July 13, 1954 thru Aug. 29, 1954
July 26, 1954—GOING UP! G-SOX NEAR FIRST DIVISION AGAIN—by Harry Gilstrap---Don’t let the word get out, but it looks like the Gold Sox might be back in the running. Straddling a five-game winning streak now, they could pull up to a virtual, though not precise, tie for fourth place with Plainview tonight by beating the Ponies again, as they did Sunday afternoon, 8-3. They have reversed form since their recent, woeful 10-game string of defeats which extended through last Tuesday night and dropped them four and one-half games out of the first division. Frank Kempa, their new manager, inherited eight of those losses. The night he took over the sox dropped a doubleheader at Pampa. Next night, however, they whipped the Oilers twice. Then, after a day’s respite for the All-Star contest, they scored Friday and Saturday night victories over powerful, third-place Abilene, followed by yesterday’s well-earned success. Game time will be 8:15 PM the event will be preceded by the second and final section of the 1954 “Miss Gold Sox” contest. The eight pretty candidates, who paraded in bathing suits Saturday, this time will appear in formal attire, entering the park in automobiles. The winner will tour the league with the queens of the other six member cities, contending for the title of “Miss West Texas-New Mexico League.” The fortunate lovely league contest will go to the national meeting of the minors in Houston next December to compete for designation as “Miss Baseball”
July 13, 1954 thru Aug. 29, 1954
in the July 24, 1954—ANDERSON FRLIEF JOB GIVES G-SOX 9-4 WIN—Gold Sox win 3rd Straight in Comeback—The Gold Sox took the lead in the fifth on Frosty Kennedy’s solo homer in the fifth, then erupted for four more off Oscar Reguera and Marcus Job in the sixth. It was the third straight Amarillo victory after a string of 10 consecutive defeats. The g-Sox got off to an early lead Friday night, scoring four in the first inning. With one out, Bill Wilhite walked and, after Goose Goff had grounded out, scored on Kennedy’s looping single to right. A single by Johnny Bruzga and a walk to Johnny Rucker filled the bases, and Kennedy strolled in when Charley Balciulis was hit by a pitch. Kennedy’s line-drive homer over left led off the lower half of the sixth to break the tie. Reguera lasted through that round, but with one gone in the sixth, Willhite and Goff doubled in succession and Job came in. Kennedy scratched a double off Ellison’s leg and Bruzga was walked intentionally. Rucker singled to left center to score Kennedy.
July 13, 1954 thru Aug. 29, 1954
July 13, 1954--- GOLD SOX AVERAGES
(Does not include Tuesday game)
Player………….AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB PCT.
Kennedy…………… 215 54 82 12 3 23 71 4 .381
Bruzga…………….. 305 58 110 23 2 10 62 1 .361
Goff ……………….. 203 42 68 14 1 5 32 2 .335
Locke………………. 270 48 87 23 1 9 51 1 .322
Rucker……………… 223 46 65 10 6 8 37 14 .291
Brown……………… 213 33 60 9 3 3 23 7 .282
Kempa………………. 300 68 78 13 5 10 38 14 .260
Wilhite…………… 294 62 78 13 3 6 47 5 .265
Balciulis…………… 56 11 15 0 0 4 13 0 .268
July 13, 1954--- GOLD SOX AVERAGES
(Does not include Tuesday game)
Player………….AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB PCT.
Kennedy…………… 215 54 82 12 3 23 71 4 .381
Bruzga…………….. 305 58 110 23 2 10 62 1 .361
Goff ……………….. 203 42 68 14 1 5 32 2 .335
Locke………………. 270 48 87 23 1 9 51 1 .322
Rucker……………… 223 46 65 10 6 8 37 14 .291
Brown……………… 213 33 60 9 3 3 23 7 .282
Kempa………………. 300 68 78 13 5 10 38 14 .260
Wilhite…………… 294 62 78 13 3 6 47 5 .265
Balciulis…………… 56 11 15 0 0 4 13 0 .268
(Does not include Tuesday game)
Player………….AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB PCT.
Kennedy…………… 215 54 82 12 3 23 71 4 .381
Bruzga…………….. 305 58 110 23 2 10 62 1 .361
Goff ……………….. 203 42 68 14 1 5 32 2 .335
Locke………………. 270 48 87 23 1 9 51 1 .322
Rucker……………… 223 46 65 10 6 8 37 14 .291
Brown……………… 213 33 60 9 3 3 23 7 .282
Kempa………………. 300 68 78 13 5 10 38 14 .260
Wilhite…………… 294 62 78 13 3 6 47 5 .265
Balciulis…………… 56 11 15 0 0 4 13 0 .268
July 13, 1954--- GOLD SOX AVERAGES
(Does not include Tuesday game)
Player………….AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB PCT.
Kennedy…………… 215 54 82 12 3 23 71 4 .381
Bruzga…………….. 305 58 110 23 2 10 62 1 .361
Goff ……………….. 203 42 68 14 1 5 32 2 .335
Locke………………. 270 48 87 23 1 9 51 1 .322
Rucker……………… 223 46 65 10 6 8 37 14 .291
Brown……………… 213 33 60 9 3 3 23 7 .282
Kempa………………. 300 68 78 13 5 10 38 14 .260
Wilhite…………… 294 62 78 13 3 6 47 5 .265
Balciulis…………… 56 11 15 0 0 4 13 0 .268
July 13, 1954 thru Aug. 29, 1954
We Will run some of the Amerillo news stories from 7/13/54 thru 8/29/54.
July 13, 1954(Abilene-AP)—FIVE G-SOX ON ALL STARS—The Averill gold Sox, who will host the West Texas-New Mexico League’s annual All-Star game July 22, won a third of the places on the North’s squad. Amarillo placed five men—Len Ruyle, Frosty Kennedy, Eddie Locke, Johnny Bruzga and Johnny Rucker—on the North all-stars, Borger four and Clovis and Albuquerque three each, it was announced today. The South team, which was announced Sunday, is made yup of players from Abilene, Lubbock, Pampa and Plainview. Only unanimous choice on the North squad was Carroll “Red” Dial, pitching ace of the league-leading Clovis Pioneers. The first place club could muster only two other places, with outfielders Pete Trabuco and Lincoln Boyd. The North selections: Pitchers—George Socha, Albuquerque; George Tomecek, Borger; Len Ruyle, Amarillo; Red Dial, Clovis. Catchers—tom Jordon, Albuquerque; Luis Villodas, Borger. First base—Forrest “Frosty” Kennedy, Avarillo. Second base –Bob Westfall, Borger. Third base –John Bruzga, Amarillo. Shortstop—Gil Valentin, Borger. Left field – Eddie Locke, Amarillo. Center field – Pete Trabucco, Clovis. Right Field – Lincoln Boyd, Clovis. Utility infielder – Joe Pierre, Albuquerque. Utility outfielder – Johnny Rucker, Amarillo. The picks were made by the managers of the four North cities and the sports writers and radio broadcasters covering these clubs. The managers will be named by the players on the two squads.
July 13, 1954(Abilene-AP)—FIVE G-SOX ON ALL STARS—The Averill gold Sox, who will host the West Texas-New Mexico League’s annual All-Star game July 22, won a third of the places on the North’s squad. Amarillo placed five men—Len Ruyle, Frosty Kennedy, Eddie Locke, Johnny Bruzga and Johnny Rucker—on the North all-stars, Borger four and Clovis and Albuquerque three each, it was announced today. The South team, which was announced Sunday, is made yup of players from Abilene, Lubbock, Pampa and Plainview. Only unanimous choice on the North squad was Carroll “Red” Dial, pitching ace of the league-leading Clovis Pioneers. The first place club could muster only two other places, with outfielders Pete Trabuco and Lincoln Boyd. The North selections: Pitchers—George Socha, Albuquerque; George Tomecek, Borger; Len Ruyle, Amarillo; Red Dial, Clovis. Catchers—tom Jordon, Albuquerque; Luis Villodas, Borger. First base—Forrest “Frosty” Kennedy, Avarillo. Second base –Bob Westfall, Borger. Third base –John Bruzga, Amarillo. Shortstop—Gil Valentin, Borger. Left field – Eddie Locke, Amarillo. Center field – Pete Trabucco, Clovis. Right Field – Lincoln Boyd, Clovis. Utility infielder – Joe Pierre, Albuquerque. Utility outfielder – Johnny Rucker, Amarillo. The picks were made by the managers of the four North cities and the sports writers and radio broadcasters covering these clubs. The managers will be named by the players on the two squads.
Friday, June 03, 2005
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