Word: candlestick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...omnipotent pitch, the National League's Cincinnati Reds are a curious anachronism. Their mound staff is a monument to mediocrity, which is why they are a hopeless 15½ games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. But Red batsmen are rattling the fences from Crosley Field to Candlestick Park. The team batting average is .270, tops in either league by 18 points. Four of their hitters are among the league's top ten; a fifth, Third Baseman Tony Perez, is second only to San Francisco's Willie McCovey in RBls with...
Jack jump over the candlestick...
Pale Imitation. On the Eastern Seaboard, echoes of history mingled with the pressures of the present. More than 4,000 demonstrators mustered on the Boston Common before a draft-card burning at which 67 men ignited their cards with a candlestick once owned by William Ellery Channing, the 19th century Unitarian divine and Thoreauvian advocate of civil disobedience, who wrote: "Our first duties are not to our country. We belong first to God and next to our race." Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a longtime activist who has marched against Southern white racism as well as the war, conceded that...
...would take a pretty good imagination just to dream up a scene of glory like that in San Francisco's Candlestick Park last week. As one, 30,000 fans leaped to their feet and screamed wildly as the ball disappeared into the right-field bleachers and the batter loped casually around the bases. One of the loudest cheers came from Stan Musial, vice president of the opposing St. Louis Cardinals. Not even Plate Umpire Chris Pelekoudas could stand aloof as the player rounded third and touched home; Pelekoudas reached out and warmly shook his hand. Willie Mays had just...
...trying to cover first base. In 1962 it was a twisted ankle that disabled him for 30 days-though he still posted an 18-11 record and picked up a victory in the All-Star game. Somehow, Marichal managed to stay healthy in 1963. On June 15, at Candlestick Park, he pitched a no-hitter, permitting only two Houston Astros to reach first base, and winning 1-0. Two weeks later he toiled 16 innings to win another 1-0 decision, over the old master, Warren Spahn. At season's end his record was 25 victories, only eight defeats...