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Word: buntings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resist telling TV fans in his cornpone drawl every last detail of what they could see for themselves. Moreover, with a journalist's eye for firsts and a statistician's mania for the minutiae of baseball, he was fond of confiding to his listeners that, say, the bunt that had just been witnessed was the first ever laid down by a left-handed rightfielder in an August night game with two men on base and one out. In the few moments when the 90 million known facets of the diamond happened to fail him, he always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio-Television: Skyrocket | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...Cards ended it quickly in the tenth. Bill White worked reliefer Pete Mikkelson for a walk; then slugger Ken Boyer laid down a bunt between the mound and first base, and beat it out easily as Mikkelson and Joe Pepitone stood inert and watched it roll. After the Yankees botched a pick-off play on White, McCarver hit his blast into the lower right field stands...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Cards Beat Yanks, 5-2, On 10th Inning Homer | 10/13/1964 | See Source »

...decisions, he had made the plunge only once. This time he did the next best thing: he retired after two innings, with the game tied 4-4. That left it up to Relief Pitcher Stan Williams, whose special talent is that he does not know how to field a bunt. In the eighth inning, he picked up a trickier-and threw the ball into left field. Then, he picked up another-and threw it into right field. Final score: Baltimore 7, New York 4. Said Berra: "It ain't time to worry yet. I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: How to Win Friends | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

Yale scored first, when left fielder Don Raymond tripled in the top half of the fourth and then came in on John Hunsaker's single. Harvard responded in the bottom of the fourth with a run on Tom Stephenson's bunt single, a well-timed overthrow to first, and another single by Gary Miller...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Del Rossi Wins Eleventh Victory As Crimson Conquers Yale, 3-2 | 6/11/1964 | See Source »

Luther got himself in serious trouble in the first inning, but alert fielding, including a tremendous throw to the plate by center fielder Neville, prevented any scoring.Harvard's TOM STEPHENSON (25) lays down a squeeze bunt in the fifth inning against Navy as GEORGE NEVILLE heads for home. The throw from pitcher BRUCE TERWILLIGER is in time and the umpire signals the out, but Neville's hard slide Jars the ball loose from GENE PARCINSKI and the ump reverses the call...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Baseball Team Scores Two Crucial Triumphs | 5/4/1964 | See Source »

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