Word: bats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Centerfielder Wynn, 25, looks like the Houston bat boy - until he swings a bat. Last month in St. Louis' Busch Stadium, Wynn became the third player in history (the others: Joe Torre and Willie Mays) to bounce a ball off the beer sign in left centerfield, 440 ft. from home plate. In Cincinnati, he hit two home runs over Crosley Field's 45-ft.-high Scoreboard - one of which carried all the way onto an exit ramp of the Mill Creek Expressway...
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope have had one for years, Andy Williams gets his next year, Dean Martin is lined up for 1969, and Frank Sinatra is so anxious to acquire Hollywood's latest status symbol that he doesn't even bat an eye at the $175,000 price tag. Well what is it, for heaven's sake? Nothing less than their own golf tournament, with the boys and their pals putting up the cash and getting the whole thing named after them. It's all two-bit Nassau, though, compared with what Jackie Gleason...
...police and bands of youths roamed the streets, other incidents occurred. Several small fires were reported. One 16-year-old boy was struck on the head with a baseball bat. Another man was treated for a knife wound in the chest. Police with bullhorns convinced a group of about 100 to disperse in the only major confrontation...
Harvard tallied twice in the second inning on a Texas Leaguer off Bill Cobb's bat, a long triple up the left-center alley by Carter Lord, and a single to left by Hall...
Hitting with the crisp effectiveness which brought him All-League honors as a sophomore, the 6 ft. 200 lb, senior got two singles and a double in six times at bat, scored four runs and hiked his batting average to a resounding...