Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guessing game about the outcome of the season, Broun was ruminating about one of the finer points of the game. "Legend placed the fountain of youth in Florida," he reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways...
After three years in the minors, during which he lost more games (30) than he won (28) but struck out 496 bat ters in 467 innings, Koosman won a spot in the Mets' rotation this spring. In his first game, he shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4-0; in his second, he whiffed Willie Mays with the bases loaded ("It was no great thrill") and blanked the San Francisco Giants, 3-0. "I'll challenge any hitter around," says Jerry, "as long as my fastball holds up and I have a curve that can keep them...
...Bat Strangers...
Harvard's defense was shaky early in the season, but "We're really starting to jell as a team defensively. Our main problem will be putting together some hits," Shepard said. "Sometimes we're strangers with the bat...
...Crimson attack could muster only eight hits, three from the bat of third baseman Bill Cobb. Harvard's three leading sluggers, Jeff Grate, John Ignacio and captain Carter Lord, accounted for only two hits among them...