Word: bailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legion World Series with a brilliant 18-1 record that included five no-hitters and 259 strikeouts in 105 innings. In the Series, he struck out 47 batters in three games, and scouts from ten teams scrambled for him. Baltimore finally picked up the 17-year-old fire-bailer with an $80,000 bonus and packed him off to the Victoria, Tex., Rosebuds...
...line single by Roger Maris, that Yankee cast-off who now hustles like a rookie for the Cards, with three hits and three RBIs in the first three games of the series. The real glory boy, though, was Righthander Nelson Briles, 24, until last week a journeyman speed-bailer with only four complete games all season. He allowed the Red Sox seven hits and two runs, but for nine long innings last week no one could fault him in the clutch-least of all Carl Yastrzemski, whom he forced into ground outs three times, all three of them with...
...always coming up from Richmond) came Rookie Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre, 22, to win nine crucial games, including the eleventh in the Yank streak, a two-hit shutout during which he personally outdid Washington batsmen with five singles, two R.B.I.s. Over from Cleveland came Pedro Ramos, the Cuban "palm-bailer," meaning spit-bailer: he won one game and saved five others-including two against Cleveland last week...