Word: centerfielders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the famous old Redbird team was terrorizing the National League in the mid-1950s - but the family resemblance is unmistakable. There is Lou Brock dashing madly for second and sliding in safely with his 36th sto len base of the season. Curt Flood running full tilt into the centerfield wall to spear a liner that otherwise would have been a sure extra-base hit. Roger Maris crossing up the pulled-back enemy infield with a perfectly placed drag bunt. Orlando Cepeda explaining his .339 batting average and 19 home runs...
Take 34 big-league hitters with an average-average of .290 and a total of 373 homers and 1,371 RBls. Split them into two teams, put them in a ballpark that has the shallowest centerfield in the American League, give them wind at their backs, and let them flail away madly for 15 innings. Then try to explain why the final score at last week's annual All-Star game in Anaheim, Calif., was National League 2, American League...
...Centerfielder Wynn, 25, looks like the Houston bat boy - until he swings a bat. Last month in St. Louis' Busch Stadium, Wynn became the third player in history (the others: Joe Torre and Willie Mays) to bounce a ball off the beer sign in left centerfield, 440 ft. from home plate. In Cincinnati, he hit two home runs over Crosley Field's 45-ft.-high Scoreboard - one of which carried all the way onto an exit ramp of the Mill Creek Expressway...
Wynn's spectacular slugging is the more remarkable because doctors did not expect him to play at all this year -if ever again. In Philadelphia last August, pursuing a long drive, he crashed into the centerfield wall at full speed-smashing his left elbow and wrist. It took a 45-min. operation and five months in a cast to get his arm back into an approximation of its original shape. But now, says Wynn without the slightest taint of modesty, "I have all the tools to be a superstar." For starters, he has pledged to hit 30 homers, drive...
When Pappas tried to waste an outside fastball, Clemente reached out and poked the ball 400 ft. over the right centerfield fence. Next time Roberto came up, Pappas threw him another fastball, but this time high and inside. Clemente leaned back and swatted it 400 ft. into the rightfield stands...