Word: ashburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experiment, FHA recently backed inexpensive houses built by half a dozen manufacturers of mobile homes. Guerdon Industries came up with a two-bedroom, one-bath model, 12 ft. wide and 46 ft. long, that sells for a mere $4,210 in Ashburn, Ga. To keep the price that low, the city relaxed its requirements for street paving and foundations and FHA waived a few of its ordinary minimum standards...
...Mets. Without a decent pitcher, or a competent fielder on the team, the amazin' Mets are really in bad shape. Rookie secondbaseman Hot Rod Kanehl is the only young player of promise on the team, and despite the game determination of the fading Gil Hodges and Richie Ashburn to play again next season, the Mets may be even worse next year than they...
Frank Thomas is definitely a major-league power hitter, and a good one, but he, Ashburn, and Kanehl, are really the only bright spots in the Mets' bleak picture. and next year there may be just Thomas and Kanehl...
Neither of the two new clubs has come up with any big surprises. The Mets were playing better than .500 ball after an initial nine-game losing streak, but are currently in a new skid which has cost them eight straight. Thomas, Richie Ashburn, and Charlie Neal are performing for their new club with some of their greatest flair, but the club has been unable to bunch its hits. Rooting for the Mets, with their never-wases and has-beens becomes something of a sick joke: Hodges lines a screaming shot off the left field wall and is thrown...
...lineup, Murtaugh has revived an oldfashioned, single-slapping brand of baseball, leniently lets his players flash the sign for the hit-and-run whenever they see a chance. "Murtaugh lets us use our own judgment," says Hoak, "until it proves to be bad judgment. For instance, this guy Ashburn on the Cubs gives me fits. I play him close to the line and he hits through the hole. I move over and he hits down the line. So I go to Dan and I say 'Hey, Dan, how in hell do I play this guy?' Dan thinks...