Word: balling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Pappas tried to waste an outside fastball, Clemente reached out and poked the ball 400 ft. over the right centerfield fence. Next time Roberto came up, Pappas threw him another fastball, but this time high and inside. Clemente leaned back and swatted it 400 ft. into the rightfield stands...
...positions in what seems certain to be the fastest, scariest, and most intriguing Memorial Day 500 in history. For the nostalgic, who bemoan the passing of the old Offenhauser-powered roadsters that dominated the 500 for years, there was Lloyd Ruby, who hit 165.2 m.p.h. in his American Red Ball Special powered by a rear-mounted Offy. For patriots, unhappy that foreign "sporty car" drivers in foreign machines have won the last two 500s, there was California's Dan Gurney, who blasted his American Eagle around the track at a fantastic 167.2 m.p.h.-demolishing the four-lap record...
Fireballing Mike Luggen won two games, and struck out the most opponents. The tall Kentuckian, who had arm trouble early in the spring, had a good curve and a moving fast ball. Gus Crimm, when he wasn't playing first base, also saw a good deal of action on the pitcher's mound...
...teams collected unearned runs in the second inning. Tom Thornton, the football quarterback and leftfielder who contributed a clutch error to the Harvard seventh-frame uprising, started things off by beating out a grounder on a close play at first. He stole second, moved to third on a passed ball by Crimson catcher Jeff Hall, and scored on a squeeze bunt...
...results show that they worked hard enough. The one loss -- to Brown -- came after a week and half layoff and the boys still made me proud there by coming back from a 6-0 first quarter deficit to make it close at the end. This was a real solid ball club," Lentz said...