Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in baseball history that a myth became a manager-although the Berra myth was mostly fact. Over 18 seasons with the Yankees, he batted .285, hit 358 home runs, set World Series records for hits (71) and R.B.I.s (39). He played in more games (2,116) than any Yankee except Lou Gehrig, and he was the most dangerous clutch hitter in baseball. "Anything I can reach, I can hit," he boasted, and he is probably the only player who got shoe polish on his bat from golfing one over the fence. He won three Most Valuable Player awards...
...trundled out to bat with his shin guards still on, showed up behind the plate without his catcher's mask. He once hit a pitcher on the chest with a throw to second base; another time he beaned the second-base umpire, and one day he caught a fly ball with his forehead. His face creased in concentration, Yogi was always the first Yankee to report for work. "I know I'm going to take the wrong subway, so I leave an hour early...
...pennants, two world championships, eight first-division finishes. But this was a time for heroics, and Alston hardly seemed the man to ignite any team. He was still the dour, noncommittal ex-shop teacher from Darrtown, Ohio, the fellow who struck out the only time he ever got to bat in the big leagues, the homespun country boy who played percentages so devoutly that the Dodgers paid a fulltime statistician to do his arithmetic. Every fall Alston signed a blank contract, then waited till spring to find out how much the Dodgers were going to pay him (currently...
...Mirski Gallery, Lebrun's massive, thick-loined human figures, often headless and otherwise distorted, alternately embrace and support each other. They seem to battle against the grasp of the deep shadows which model their limbs and torsos. The prevailing mood is Dantesque. Lebrun's style adapts excellently to his bat-winged "Lucifer" and to several smaller drawings for the "Inferno," but seems out-of-place when applied to "Two Dancers...
...year-old man was picked up by Los Angeles police after he tried to rob two banks by threatening tellers with a baseball bat. A housewife left her two children eating candy at a bus-stop in Hermosa Beach, stuck up a Bank of America branch at toy gun point for $4,000, picked up her kids and strolled away. She was arrested down the street. Ludicrous as some of these amateurs' efforts are, they do not amuse the cops. Growls one Los Angeles veteran: "When you take loot, you've lost your amateur standing...