Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday, in the ninth inning of a game they won at Yankee Stadium, the Detroit Tigers lost for at least two months one of post-war baseball's great out-fielder, Al Kaline...
Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...
...front. Also at the Coliseum: a new world's record in the shotput by University of Southern California's Dallas Long with a throw of 65 ft. 10½ in.; a new world's record in the discus by two-time Olympic Champion Al Oerter with a throw of 200 ft. 5½ in., first time the 200-ft. mark has been reached...
...make things more colorful, coach Norm Shepard used all three of his starting pitchers for three innings spiece, and they all turned in tolerably good, although not dazzling, performances. Al Yarbro, who started, was the most effective of the three, allowing but one hit and one unearned run in his three innings...
Coach Norm Shepard's pitching strategy is at yet unknown, but chances are Al Yarbro will return to action. Yarbro, a fastballer, has been having his troubles this year, but if he is in good form, that should be the ball game. In the event Shepard passes over Yarbro, Dick Garibaldi (5-1) will probably get the nod. Garibaldi had won five in a row before running into the demolition crew at Holy Cross last week...