Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never obtrusive in musical-comedy fashion. Many of her effects would be impossible without the marvelous unit set designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian--two converging cavernous walls of shiny but unsmooth silver, parts of which can swing in; and, hovering overhead, a structure suggestive of some enormous gray mythic bat, through whose wings lights sometimes filter. Ter-Arutunian also designed the costumes, which belong to no one period. For the most part they are of gray and black, though Macbeth and his wife are symbolically garbed in blood-red on their first entrance as king and queen. There is rather...
Then, a rally. Boston cut the Angels' lead to 5-4, had men on first and third with two out, and up stepped young Mike Andrews to the plate. On his previous at-bat, Andrews had missed a home run by a matter of feet when he belted one out of the park, barely foul. So here was the Kid's chance to try to put one into Kenmore Square, be a super-hero, and get half a dozen stories in the next morning's Boston Globe about his wife, his children, his dog, his first grade teacher, his parents...
...American League, seven for the National League. In 30 innings, they gave up only 17 hits, walked only two batters, and fanned a record 30, including among their strikeout victims some of the most fearsome sluggers in baseball. Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays each came up to bat as pinch hitters and each looked at a called third strike. Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente, eight-year batting average, .328, wrote his name into the All-Star record book (as they say) by whiffing four times in a row. And St. Louis' Orlando Cepeda, the No. 1 hitter...
...months in a cast to get his arm back into an approximation of its original shape. But now, says Wynn without the slightest taint of modesty, "I have all the tools to be a superstar." For starters, he has pledged to hit 30 homers, drive in 100 runs, and bat at least .300 this season. So far the only area in which Jim is falling short is his batting average. He's hitting only...
...team in baseball that has to weigh in for work; a coach guards the scales and prescribes for excess lard. Stanky maneuvers ballplayers as if they were robots and he owned the patents: he has been known to use as many as three pinch hitters for one turn at bat. In his "gogo" offense, even pitchers steal bases, and a batter who reaches first base is considered to be in scoring position. Against Baltimore last week, Chicago Leftfielder Jimmy Stewart scored from first on a single to leftfield-because the Orioles never imagined he would...