Word: batted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...List. Son of a Bridgehampton, Long Island, potato farmer, Yastrzemski started swinging a baseball bat at three. At seven, he was fielding fungos hit by his father, a former semipro ballplayer...
...Musial. His stance is closed, his right knee is slightly bent, and he scowls at the pitcher over a high-cocked elbow. When he unwinds, his swing is level and lightning-quick. His reflexes are so fast that even bad balls become good targets. In his first time at bat in a major league game, Boston Rookie Carl Yastrzemski sliced an outside fast ball into leftfield for a single. Next game against the Los Angeles Angels, he drove in two runs, hit a single and a booming 374-ft. triple. Said battered Angel Pitcher Jerry Casale: "He hit the single...
...back to score four runs. In the seventh, their pitcher took the first ball of the inning and hit it 320 feet into left field to score the winning home run. The Crimson staged a last minute rally, and found Shima on first, with two outs and Morso at bat. Shima tried to steal second in order to get into scoring position, and was thrown out to end the game...
...White Sox Outfielder Minnie Minoso stepped proudly into the batter's box in the first inning at Griffith Stadium, pounded his favorite bat ferociously on home plate-and broke the bat...
...Rome (Destry Rides Again), Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie), and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (Wildcat). Authorship is not revealed until the tune has been sold. "It's embarrassing," explained the firm's vice president, Stuart Ostrow, "for an important writer to go to bat for Pepsodent and be turned down." Average price, not including sizable royalties...