Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctor wouldn't let me pitch," Keefe explained. So he started playing golf for the first time in his life. Without lessons, he played every day for the next two summers. "I always used to play baseball and swing a bat, so I just started swinging a golf club naturally," he said...
...especially pleased with his hitting during the seven game stretch. Leading the team in percentage is Jeff Grate who has a phenomenal .470 average. Second baseman Dick Manchester has been hitting over .320 to give the team a doubly dangerous double play combination, on the field and at bat...
...mythology of the West, there were only red men and white men, but several of the explorers of the Oregon Territory were black, while some 5,000 Negro cowboys roamed the range with Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. A later explorer, Matthew Henson, was Admiral Robert Peary's only companion when he first reached the North Pole, actually beating Peary to the Pole by 45 minutes, thus becoming the first man to stand on top of the world...
...lackluster lot of candidates. He won, with a landslide 15,000-vote margin over the closest of 17 opponents (TIME, Nov. 3), and San Franciscans anticipated another administration devoted to parochial self-puffery. Not so. Alioto has come across like John Lindsay, Western style. Right off the bat he raised the hopes of the city's minorities. After his inauguration at the glittering San Francisco Opera House in January, Alioto scheduled receptions in the predominantly Negro Hunters Point-Bayview section and the Mission District (Mexican-Americans, Filipinos, American Indians). Humming operatic airs, sipping Campari and soda or playing...
...looks fairly well set with Ignacio, Dick Manchester, Jeff Grate and Bill Cobb. Manchester, at second, will provide the team with one of the best gloves in the league even though he lacks power at the plate. Grate, at short-stop, is also a good fielder and has a bat to match. At third, Bill Cobb has a .308 batting average and a strong...