Word: batted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best in the majors. But the Pirates need maximum performance from everyone to pull through; at present they are great more in terms of publicity than performance. Mazeroski, for example, whose homer felled the Yankees, may be capable of hitting .300, but he is just as likely to bat .250. The same holds for Hoak, Stuart, Cimoli, and Hal Smith...
...lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded after human arms and hands by means of a general-purpose computer." And at their switchboards operators tirelessly greet the thousands of callers to UNiversity 4-6900 in Cambridge, Mass...
...greasy punks, the heroic sheriffs as smalltime officeholders, and the beautiful dance-hall girls a lot uglier than sin. It recalled the West's real life as well as its real death; one memorable picture showed a corpse so riddled with bullets that it looked-making the Bat Masterson kind of tough talk come true-like a sieve. Ranging over more than 300 still pictures, the TV camera showed the hardships of the "unmarried, unchurched, and unwashed'' miners, the dust and sweat of the cattle drives, the tragedy of the Indians, who fell, inevitably, to the restless...
...shape of the bat has changed because everyone swings for the fences. Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found out it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs-it's the speed with which you swing it. So now everyone uses a bat with a thin handle and a long taper, so that most of the wood's in the end. You can whip this one around and get power in your swing...
...Every pitcher you face has the slider and uses it pretty well. When I came up to the majors, very few pitchers had it. It fits the shape of this bat. It comes in like a fast ball and breaks a few inches in toward the hands of the batter. That means it breaks in where there is no wood in the bat. Just the thin handle. It breaks so late you can't adjust your swing for it. Used to be all you had to worry about was the fast ball, the curve and the change...