Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baoquet captain Al Martin received the Wendell Bat, for compelling the best offensive record on the team. Martin captained last year's varsity, played second base, and led the team in runs-batted-in with...
...county and state conventions. While Republican mossbacks shunned him, Bagwell became the heretic hero of liberal young Republicans, went on to head the state's Citizens for Eisenhower in 1954. He ran for auditor-general in 1956, lost by 32,000 votes (out of 3,000,000), bat led the G.O.P. ticket. Bagwell's surprising vote-drawing power-and a general shortage of Republicans brave enough to run against Soapy Williams-sewed up the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination for him in 1958. He cut Soapy's 1956 margin of victory in half...
...just doing the same old things in the same old way," said Richardson in wonderment. "But, whango, something seems to happen to the ball.'' All this was prelude to the seventh and deciding game. In the first inning, with one man on base, up to bat stepped a garrulous vagabond named Rocky Nelson, 35. In his 16-season baseball career, Nelson had played for six big-league teams and been consigned to the minors five times before finally catching on with Pittsburgh, where he was revered for the art of chewing tobacco for a full hour without spitting...
Hoisting a Highball. As they had so often over the regular season, the Yankees fought back and were leading, 7-6, in the eighth inning, when another of baseball's castoffs, Catcher Hal Smith, 29, came to bat for Pittsburgh. On a pitch low and fast, Smith hit a three-run homer to give the Pirates a 9-7 lead...
...BATTING. With no truly solid slugger, the Pirates score runs by punching singles through or over the infield, going for the extra base and pulling the hit and run, especially when Shortstop Groat (.325) is at bat. As always, the Yankees rely on the long ball. Although his average is a so-so .275, Centerfielder Mickey Mantle still has belted 40 home runs. Rightfielder Roger Maris has hit another 39. In Pittsburgh's vast Forbes Field (right-center-field wall: 425 ft.), most of the Yankees will have trouble reaching the seats. Not Mantle. Says Chicago White Sox Manager...