Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good a Way As Any. The Dodgers had other heroes. Catcher John Roseboro hit a three-run homer off Whitey Ford, and First Baseman Bill Skowron, a Yankee discard, bedeviled his old teammates with two run-producing hits. But none could match Koufax. In the dressing room, he rubbed a little salt in Yankee wounds. "I would have been satisfied with 14 strikeouts," he said, "but I had to end the game some way, and that seemed as good...
Feigner makes his living by pitching with only three other players on his side-catcher, first baseman and shortstop. His four-man squad, billed as the King and His Court, plays the country's top professional and semi-pro teams and wins eleven games out of every twelve. It can do that because Feigner is very probably what he claims to be: the best softball pitcher in the world...
...year, will be in center, and Hank Aaron (.318) is in right. Tommy Davis (.335) completes what is clearly the superior outfield. Julian Javier (.277) at second is a surprise, but then League has a dearth of really good second sackers, Ken Boyer (.311) is easily the best third baseman in the business, and Bill White (.328) is a superb first baseman in a League which has a lot of excellent ones. Dick Groat (.325) at short and Ed Bailey (.252) behind the plate are adequate, if not quite stellar...
Died. John Franklin ("Home Run") Baker, 77, Hall of Fame slugger in baseball's era of the "dead ball," who as a third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics in Connie Mack's famed "$100,000 infield" four times led the American League in homers (peak year: 1913, with twelve), retired in 1922 to his Maryland farm when his legs started to fail; of a stroke; in Trappe...
...Howard has recently begun to hit violently. Tom Tresh, who replaced Mantle in center, has been good enough to make the All Star team. In addition, Joe Pepitone, the boy who showed great promise while filling in for Mantle last season, has emerged as the League's best first baseman...