Word: bunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mantle could also bunt a team to death, because he was that rarest of all ballplayers, a switch-hitting slugger who could outsprint every big man in the league and most of the little men. That combination, plus his aw-shucks, farm-boy manner, made Mighty Mick an instant folk hero. In his first 14 seasons, he led the Yankees to a remarkable twelve pennant victories, won the Most Valuable Player award three times and the triple crown once, in 1956, when he batted .353, slammed 52 home runs and drove in 130 runs. His lifetime mark of 536 homers...
Then Ron Willis came in for the Cards. He promptly walked catcher Bill Freehan, hit Don Wert with a pitch, and finally got McLain on a sacrifice bunt. By then the Tigers had batted around...
Meeting with a group of baseball luminaries in the White House last week, Lyndon Johnson accepted a bat from Boston Red Sox Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, then clowned it up for photographers by faking a bunt. The action drew a telling comment from the American League batting champion. "You're too big to be a hunter," Yastrzemski chided the President. "You have to hit home runs...
...packed house at Fenway was more delirious over Andrews' bunt then any of the fireworks which preceded or followed it. His neat piece of strategy demonstrated a trait which was, until this year, a total stranger to Fenway Park. Intelligence...
Instead, Andrews knocked a beautiful bunt down the third base line and was standing on first base with the score tied before the Angels knew what had happened. Moments later the Sox' biggest gun, Carl Yastrzemski, walloped a bases-loaded double off the left field wall and Boston went...