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...broke into the American League 13 seasons ago. He has a chronically weak right shoulder and his knees are crosshatched with scars from cartilage operations-the most recent of them last winter. He runs as if he were on stilts, and he winces every time he swings a bat. But Mickey Mantle is still the most valuable player around...
Back in the Pentagon, flustered brass described the Red gunners as lucky, hastened to explain that jets are terribly vulnerable anyway. "Hell," said one Navy man, "a kid standing at the end of the runway with a baseball bat can knock down a jet if he gets the ball into those turbine blades." But the Reds weren't using baseballs. Western military experts guessed that the U.S. planes had been hit by Soviet-designed ZPU2s-twin, 14.5 mm., heavy machine guns mounted on an armored car and operated from a fast-turning swivel seat. U.S. officials suspected that...
...rightfielder of the Minnesota Twins is a hoax. He calls himself Tony, but his name is Pedro. He has claimed to be 27, but he is really 22. He swings a bat as though he were waving goodbye to his grandmother. And he is probably the only ballplayer in the major leagues who got turned down twice by the minors. But none of that is likely to keep Tony-or Pedro-Oliva from becoming Rookie of the Year and, just possibly, the only player in history to win the American League batting championship in his first big-league season...
...Arguing. But most paid off handsomely. To plug a hole at second base, Quinn hired Tony Taylor away from the Chicago Cubs; all he did was bat .281 last year and spark the Phillies to fourth place. Quinn pried Pitcher Jim Bunning away from the Detroit Tigers; by last week Bunning had already won five games. All three of the Phillies' starting outfielders came by way of trades. The farm system did the rest, producing Pitchers Art Mahaffey (3-2 this year) and Dennis Bennett (5-3), acrobatic Shortstop Bobby Wine, and the brightest new star of all, Third...
...without regard for periods," says Richard Brown, director of the Los Angeles County Museum. "And he lives with it just that way, hanging a Van Dyck alongside a Gorky in his office, a Memling alongside a Degas at home. This takes courage and taste, because it means holding the bat full length, not shortening...