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...some who say the Chicago White Sox are the coming team. They're coming all right, but, like Detroit, probable won't mature fast enough to catch the Athletics. Dick(I remember him as Richie) Allen has arrived in town after yet another trade. He should team his big bat and salary with Bill Melton, last year's American League home run king, to give the White Sox some uncharacteristic muscle offensively. The pitching, with Wilbur Wood, Stan Bahnsen and Tom Bradley, is strong...
...Brooklyn Dodger hero for nearly two decades; of a heart attack; in Sedalia, Mo. From his first season as a Dodger in 1909, Wheat's trademarks were a distinctive shimmy in the batter's box and a screaming line drive that earned him the 1918 National League batting title, a lifetime average of .317, and election to baseball's Hall of Fame. Once characterized as "165 Ibs. of scrap iron, rawhide and guts," Wheat set team records for total hits (2,804), games played (2,318) and times at bat (8,859). His final home...
There were close matches in both the house 130 and 152 lb classes. In the lightweight bout, Non Kim and Sam Change battled events for two and a half periods until Change used a bat arm for a pin with 25 seconds left...
Ashore, however, he proved a master realist in the war of words that followed his dismissal. An admiral and one of the Navy's most brilliant captains went to bat for him - and eventually struck out. Until this happened, however, Arnheiter appeared to be some sort of martyr. He had tried, he said, to fight the war and bring the sloppy old Vance up to scratch, only to be sabotaged by a mollycoddle crew and a wardroom full of intellectuals and Vietniks. Arnheiter even dreamed up a word to describe what had happened to him: he had been "Vanced...
...must begin and continue to be within. To take an essentially solitary art and make it public without negating the art is the risk any poet-performer takes. Only the rarest of men succeeds, and Yevtushenko's lack of that ineffable spiritual dimension of genius seemed right off the bat to ground out to that stubborn truth...