Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does everything wrong. He stands so far back in the batter's box that he cannot possibly reach a curve before it breaks. He holds the bat at the very end, actually gripping the knob on the handle with the fingers of his right hand. He hardly ever gets a base on balls because he swings at practically everything; and he does not bother to study opposing pitchers, or even learn their names. "You never hit the pitcher," he shrugs, "just the pitch." Batting is all a matter of luck anyway. "You no lucky, you get no hits...
...night the old outpatient blasted two more, then traveled south to Washington, where he poled four more homers in three games against the Senators to make it eight in six days. Last week, with the Yanks locked in a 2-2 tie against the Red Sox, Mantle came to bat with two men on, two out, in the bottom of the ninth. Boom! He cracked a game-winning homer 380 ft. into the rightfield seats. Next night, once more against Washington, he walloped two others in a doubleheader. That gave him 18 for the season and 491 for his career...
...summer school girl know who is a Harvard man and who isn't, so she can bat her eyelashes at the right guys? One enterprising Harvard man has found the answer--a button that tells...
...superb cover story on Juan Marichal [June 10]. Bat-swinging incidents and beanballs are unpleasant but real phenomena of baseball. Any one incident, such as the Marichal-Roseboro affair, will not live long in anyone's memory. The memory that will linger is that at one time Juan Marichal was indeed "the best right arm in baseball...
...been brooding over the bloody civil war in the Dominican Republic. For tinder, there was the tension of the tightest National League race in history; for fire, a provocative trading of beanballs, curses and threats. In the third inning, with the Dodgers leading 2-1, Marichal came to bat. The second pitch was low inside; Roseboro dropped the ball, then picked it up and deliberately fired it as hard as he could back to the mound-right past Juan's right...