Word: babe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cobb was a remarkably versatile hitter. He could bunt, hit line drives or ground balls, place his hits almost at will. Never noted as a longball hitter, he nevertheless led the American League in home runs in 1909 (with nine), once hit five in two consecutive games-a mark Babe Ruth never matched. Asked to compare Cobb and Ruth, Cleveland Outfielder Tris Speaker once said: "Babe was a great ballplayer, but Cobb was even greater. Ruth could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy...
...forever safe ... it can never be taken from him," barked Cleveland Manager Jimmie Dykes last week. But Dykes's dictum was beginning to sound like wishful thinking. Minutes after he spoke, New York Yankee Rightfielder Roger Maris whacked his 32nd home run, thus zoomed 18 games ahead of Babe Ruth's pace in 1927, the year he reached his record...
...place in the American League, clubbed nine between them in one game; Detroit, out-homered 5-4, won anyway, 15-7. The St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial walloped two against San Francisco to give him a lifetime total of 1,292 extra-base hits, within swatting distance of Babe Ruth's 1,356. Team of the week: the Milwaukee Braves, with 15 home runs. Man of the week: New York Yankee Outfielder Roger Maris, who hit four to raise his season's total to 27 and put him twelve games ahead of Babe Ruth...
...first two weeks of June, ran his season's total to 22 for the first 60 games, and found himself within reach of two of the oldest records in the book: Rudy York's mark of 18 home runs during one calendar month (August 1937), and Babe Ruth's prodigious 60 home runs during the 1927 season. But this year. American League teams play eight more games than they did when Ruth was around, and even if Maris moves ahead of the Babe's record, orthodox statisticians may reject his achievement...
There has rarely been any problem about betting a buck or buying a babe in Newport, Ky., a red-brick town just a nine-minute, $1.35 cab ride across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. The town's traditions trace back to the female followers who camped around the local U.S. Army barracks in the 19th century. Since then, Newport has developed such a gaudy brand of gambling and prostitution that it stands today as one of the nation's most blatant sin centers...