Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine. Barry Babcock was the littlest boy in the Temple City, Calif.. Little League. But he had already put in one year patiently serving as his team's bat boy, and last week Barry got his chance to play. His father, Jack Babcock. watched proudly from the stands as Barry stepped into the batter...
WILLIE MAYS, the cheerful, carefree rookie of 1951, now a hardened, introspective veteran of 30, had something to worry about. He had failed to get a hit in eight straight times at bat; his average had dropped to .290. When Warren Spahn, on the way to his no-hitter, carelessly fed Mays a fat pitch, Willie meekly grounded back to the box. "I was in deep," said Willie, "and I thought I was going deeper." Then, in another game against the Braves, Mays suddenly snapped out of his slump. Battering three Milwaukee pitchers, he became the ninth player in baseball...
Shima Stars At Bat...
Lyndon Johnson, nettled by reports that he swings a light bat in the Administration's lineup, is determined to shape up as its most powerful good-will ambassador. Tingling with the success of his recent junket to Senegal, he now hopes to tour Southeast Asia in early...
Bridal Rights. The Bar Kochba explorers-160 soldiers, students and kibbutz volunteers-had been led to the desert badlands just west of the Dead Sea by Archaeologist and former General Yigael Yadin. They found a treasure their first day at the diggings. In the same bat-infested, three-chambered Cave of Letters where he had discovered the rebel chieftain's papyri orders just a year ago. Archaeologist Yadin found some 60 more documents in a goatskin and a leather...