Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seventh-place Phillies have done O.K. this year. The big bat of Roy Sievers has given them needed power and All-Star righthander Art Mahaffey has pitched solid ball all season. Outfielder Tony Gonzales has been hitting steadily at slightly over...
Schilling inadvertently solved the problem earlier this season when muscle injuries forced him from the lineup. But the sophomore infielder is back, and his huge glove and tiny bat pose a familiar problem for Manager Mike Higgins. If he can't afford to have Schilling out of the lineup, he can barely afford to have him in it either...
...lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it." In St. Louis, Veeck enraged baseball purists by sending Midget (3 ft. 7 in.) Eddie Gaedel up to bat against the Detroit Tigers. League President Will Harridge instantly wrote midgets out of baseball-and that was all Veeck needed. At 5 ft. 6 in., he insisted, should Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto be classed as "a short ballplayer or a tall midget"? And "are we to assume that giants...
...vacuum cleaner, Maury Wills steal everything except the Scoreboard, the National League win 3-1. But in a losing cause, Rollins handled three hot shots to third flawlessly, and shut off a National League rally with a one-hand grab of Tommy Davis' ripping sixth-inning grounder. At bat, he was the only American Leaguer to reach base twice, scored his team's lone run. Said Rollins: "Maybe after you've been picked for the All-Star team five or six times, you can think you're pretty good. But a man in my position...
Perhaps not quite yet, but at $8,000 a year, Rollins is certainly the year's best bargain in baseball. He leads the American League in hits (108), ranks fourth in batting (.315), fourth in R.B.I.s (59). and his hot bat is the main reason why the Twins, seventh-place finishers last season, are basking in the American League's first division. "Even when the team is doing everything wrong," says Minnesota Manager Sam Mele, "Rich does everything right. He hits with one on, he hits with two on, and he hits with none on. With seven more...