Word: bats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fair audiences, in fact, do not want to see a talented fellow who can impersonate anybody. They want to meet Bat Masterson; they are not interested in an actor called Gene Barry, who happens to be a Jewish boy from Brooklyn. When a youthful fan at Canada's Calgary Stampede handed him a snare drum, and asked "Would you sign this, Bat?", Barry snapped: "My name is Gene Barry," and bashed his gold-headed Bat Masterson cane right through the head of the drum. He was not asked back...
...throw right past the batter's ear. Marichal spun around. "Why do you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He started straight for Marichal, and in front of 42,807 horrified-or delighted, as the case may be-fans, Marichal swung his bat and clubbed Roseboro, knocking him to the ground and opening a bloody gash in his head...
...lithe, 180-lb. six-footer whose wrists are bigger (8 in. around) than Cassius Clay's, Aaron, 31, is a superb fielder, a dangerous base runner (19 stolen bases in 22 attempts) as well as a natural hitter who says, "I just grab a bat and look for the baseball. If it's near the plate, I swing at it." Technically, he does almost everything wrong: he stands at the very back of the batter's box (where it is practically impossible to reach pitches before they break), has a hitch in his swing, hits...
...when I did the same thing and popped up." Some pitchers think that Aaron toys with them, making himself look bad on certain pitches so they will throw the same pitches again. But Hank himself insists that there is no subterfuge behind his hitting. "I've got a bat, and all the pitcher's got is a ball," he says. "That gives me a natural edge...
...into extra innings it went. "The same thing is going to happen again," moaned Maloney. In the top of the tenth, Cincinnati Shortstop Leo Cardenas finally hit a home run, to make it 1-0. Then the Cubs came to bat. Jim walked the first man he faced. Then he bore down. Billy Williams flied out, Ernie Banks bounced into a double play, and whooping, dancing Reds mobbed their hero on the mound. "Now that I've finally won one of these," said Maloney, "I'm confident I can do it again...