Word: brinkman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touch of inspiration and lots of positive thinking. "Nobody knows that little game between the pitcher and the batter better than I do," he says. At practice sessions, he stations himself behind the batting cage, shouting for Catcher Paul Casanova to choke up on the bat, commanding Shortstop Eddie Brinkman to "swing at strikes, dammit, strikes. Wait for the good pitch. And listen, the base on balls is a hell of a play." For the pitchers, there are lessons on what makes a curve ball curve. Camilo Pascual has it down pat. "Thee speening of thee ball," he says...
Booming and Banging. The only pressure the Senators are feeling these days is trying to live up to the handy die-turns of "No. 9," as they reverently refer to Williams. Brinkman, who hit a pathetic .187 last year, keeps reminding himself to "meet the ball, meet the ball." In the season's opener he did, getting two hits. "I think that's significant as hell," says Williams. "Why? Because Brinkman thinks it is, that's why." "No. 9 told me to get more hip in my swing," says Casanova, recalling the game in which he swiveled...
...Jerry A. Brinkman, whose elaborately elevatored glider (see diagram) lasted 9.4 seconds. Distance awards went to Berkeley Physicist Robert Meuser (89 ft.) and Stewart-Warner Corp. Engineer Louis W. Schultz, whose 11-in.-long delta wing, made of graph paper, flew 58 ft. 2 in. before skidding to a stop. Pioneer Naval Aviator Ralph S. Barnaby, 74, took the aerobatics prize with a stabilizer-equipped glider that gracefully floated through two complete outside loops. Brown University Anthropologist James Sakoda folded his way to the origami award; his swept-wing craft proved air-worthless, but the judges admired...
Born. To Jeanne Crain, 40, still lovely, still married screen redhead (Guns of the Timberland), and Paul Brinkman, 47, radio manufacturer: their seventh child, fourth son; in Santa Monica...
That put Tony in a sudden-death playoff with Arnold Palmer, a beer man. Sudden death is hardly the word. Suicide is a better term: out of 19 playoffs in his career, Palmer has won twelve. But Tony is a brinkman too; it makes the bubbly taste all the better. On the first hole, a 398-yard par-four, he watched Palmer smack his drive over a creek all the way to the base of the elevated green. Briefly, Lema fingered the "safe" club-a No. 4 iron. Then he reached for a driver too. "I might as well...