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...come now, TIME Magazine. In your Sept. 1 issue Press section, you deplore the purple patois of some sportswriters, and then under Milestones you describe Roger Maris as the "New York Yankee bleacher-blaster." Who's on first...
Born. To Roger Maris, 26, New York Yankee bleacher-blaster, and Patricia Carveil Maris, 26, his North Dakota high school sweetheart: their fourth child, third son; in Kansas City...
...auction of Black Angus cattle in San Antonio, few paid much attention to the lanky bleacher sitter attired in a battered Stetson, old sports jacket, khaki trousers and cowboy boots. But the inconspicuous bidder was none other than Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson, just back from Paris. Spotted and called by name, L.B.J. uttered an annoyed "Shhh" to his discoverer: "I'm down here to buy something good and cheap." With his secret out, Johnson, partnered with a Houston oilman, bought four yearling bulls...
...Secret: Sympathy. To supply these needs, Bud Hillerich has learned to combine the persistence of a bleacher heckler with the sympathy of a wife. When it comes to bats, he has discovered, ballplayers are as sensitive as violinists. He follows the major league teams with the vigilance of a scout, roams across the U.S. chatting about bats in dugouts and dressing rooms. When Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra complained that he was not getting enough power out of his bats, Hillerich checked up, found that Berra had an unconscious habit of turning the trademark toward the ball, thus hitting against...
...gives way to bright paint on all equipment used for demonstration. A bulldozer is a shocking pink; a grader is orange, a crane is red. Green rockets tell the students which piece of equipment to follow at each phase of the action. And the students do not watch from bleachers; they study from the windows of air-conditioned buses. Says Polich: "The one thing you learn in an outdoor bleacher is that rain and snow trickle through your clothing." These ideas may make training more expensive, and some oldtimers may complain that pink is too precious a color for this...