Word: battered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where else could the San Francisco Giants, champions of the National League, get beaten by their own Tacoma, Wash., farm club? Where else could Pitcher Don Drysdale, who won 25 games last year for the Los Angeles Dodgers, give up six walks, 20 hits and 13 runs, hit one batter, throw a wild pitch, and lose two games in a row? Where else could the Mets split a two-game series with the World Champion New York Yankees, who, by the way, were playing .350 ball with 7 wins, 13 losses? Where indeed? At least, that was the consensus...
Unlike Durante, who tears pianos apart with his bare hands, collegiate wreckers use axes, sledge hammers, iron wedges, crowbars and brooms. Working against the clock, the students must batter a piano into pieces small enough to be passed through a hole in a board 20 cm. (7.87 in.) in diameter. The sport got its start at Britain's Derby College of Technology, where the best time was 14 min. 3 sec. Then, at Caltech, members of the Reduction Study Group claimed the piano-demolition championship by crippling a keyboard in 10 min. 44.4 seconds. But records are made...
...like green stamps, Hedda has a wildly scattershot collection: Clark Gable had not a tooth of his own in his head; Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Doris Day all shower at least three times a day; Mario Lanza roamed the streets of Beverly Hills at night in his Cadillac to batter down the mailbox of a movie mogul he thought had betrayed him; Harry Cohn broke up the romance of Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak by having a thug threaten to work Sammy over. And if such racy bits never appeared in her column, it must be because hard-cover...
...ninth. Score: Yankees 1, Giants 0. As 43,948 spectators and 20 million TV fans hold their breaths, the Giants' Matty Alou dances boldly down the third-base line. Willie Mays grabs a handful of dirt and edges away from second. Yankee Pitcher Ralph Terry peers nervously at Batter Willie McCovey. A single means the ball game. Terry throws, McCovey swings. Crack! Second Baseman Bobby Richardson flings out his glove. Plunk. Joy, sorrow, delirium, despair-and cut to razor-blade commercial. For the 20th time in 27 tries, the New York Yankees are the world champions of baseball, richer...
...hits, three errors and 20 men left on base. Then, in the ninth, the winning run dribbled across the plate, without benefit of a hit. On first with nobody out. Dodger Speedster Maury Wills upset a series of Giant pitchers to such an extent that they walked one batter, threw to the wrong base on another, and pushed Wills around to third, where he could skip home on a sacrifice...