Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...booted scuffed old footballs around the sooty playgrounds of Uniontown, Pa. He was the product of poverty and a broken home, a shy, sensitive boy who dreamed of playing halfback for Notre Dame. His heroes were men like Stan Musial and Johnny Lujack, whose special skills at swinging a bat or throwing a ball had rescued them from the steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania...
Easy to Hit? With or without gravy, Warren Spahn has been a 20-game winner in twelve of his 17 seasons in the majors. How does he do it? "For years, I've sat on the bench, waiting to bat, watching Spahn pitch," says the New York Mets' Gil Hodges. " 'He hasn't got a thing on the ball,' I tell myself. 'I can hit him easy.' Then I get up there and-well, you know the rest...
Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes-that they were all made. But I underestimated...
...first came to the big leagues, in 1960, he was halled as the successor to Bobby Doerr, the answer to all the Red Sox second-base problems. But although Chuck could make all the plays around second, he looked as bad as all the other Red Sox with a bat in his hand. After hitting .259 his rookie year, he fell to 230 in 1962, and it seemed he would never realize his potential...
...triples, it gave him a lifetime total of 1,357 extra-base hits_breaking Babe Ruth's alltime record. After 21 seasons in the majors, Musial holds or shares 55 records in all, including National League marks for most games played (2,923), most times at bat (10,699), most base hits (3,459), most total bases (6,021). He is a three-time Most Valuable Player, has played in 23 All-Star games, and his lifetime batting average (.333) is the best in the big leagues. Only the Hall of Fame awaits...