Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arm is one of the most remarkable relics in baseball. Years of catastrophe have put a permanent crook in the elbow. Under the strain of a game, the arm literally shortens two inches. Says one National League trainer: "You name it, that arm has it-bone chips, arthritis, a pathological condition, anything that can go wrong...
...battered right arm belongs to a powerful (6 ft. 4 in., 212 Ibs.) Negro of melancholy mien named Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, 33, and it is largely responsible for putting the San Francisco Giants on a tottering perch at the head of the National League. Last week Sad Sam chomped morosely on his customary toothpick and turned a sullen eye on the Philadelphia Phillies. His crackling curve ball seemed about to eviscerate righthanded batters before breaking sharply to catch an inside corner. Humming and hopping, his fast ball loosened up any Philly who dared dig in too firmly. When...
...they call me?") is at his grim best against the Giants' challengers. He has five wins over Milwaukee, three over Los Angeles. What is more, Jones is willing and able to trudge in from the bullpen to save a game. Despite its long medical history, Jones's arm is plenty strong enough to stand the strain. It always was; his problem was control. Although he had not played much baseball growing up in Monongah, W. Va. (pop. 1,622), Jones developed such speed that Army Air Corps coaches turned him into a scatter-armed fireballer during World...
...Park. In Bakersfield, Calif., racing after a line drive in the 13th inning of a California League baseball game, Modesto's Centerfielder Harry Mayo jammed his arm through the outfield fence, was unable to shake it loose, watched helplessly as the opposing team scored the winning...
Early this year Bachelor Koufax was hampered by a sore shoulder that restricted him for five weeks to little more than pitching batting practice and lifting the arm of his hi-fi set (he likes Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky). Overall, he has a record of only 8-4. But with Koufax now at his blinding best (31 strike-outs -in his last two games) and crossfiring Don Drysdale leading the league in strikeouts (207), the second-place Dodgers have the fastest staff in the majors as they settle down for the September stretch fight with the Giants. To prove the point...