Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIKE HEP! (NBC. 9-10 p.m.). Dinah Shore is back for a variety special with Guests Lucille Ball, Rowan and Martin, and Diana Ross without the Supremes...
Thus did Boston Red Sox Outfielder Tony Conigliaro describe that terrible night of Aug. 18, 1967, when a ball thrown by California Angels Pitcher Jack Hamilton smashed into his left temple. He was injured so severely that doctors predicted he would never play professional baseball again. But Conigliaro fought an extraordinary battle to prove the doctors wrong. Last week, as the Grapefruit Circuit closed, the 24-year-old Conigliaro was not only back in uniform but whacking the ball with the gusto and effectiveness...
...there was no World Series for Tony that year. The pitched ball had fractured his cheekbone in three places and dislocated his jaw; it also left him completely blind for 48 hours after the accident. When he was released from the hospital eight days later, the imprint of the baseball's stitches was still visible on his brow, and the vision of his left eye was hopelessly blurred...
...been swinging them ever since. After rejoining the Red Sox this spring, Boston Manager Dick Williams says, "Tony regained his touch and started stinging the ball. He's looked like the old Conig." Conigliaro himself says he can now "get his eye on the spin of the ball," recently proved it by whacking a single and a home run to lead the Red Sox to a 4-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. "Tony never doubted that he could do it," says Williams, "and he made believers out of all of us." Tony has made such a believer...
...other two doubles matches were played by second-string men. The Crimson's Butch Kawakami and Bill Ball were defeated, 10-12, while Erich Wise and Dick Rosenthal lost their match...