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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swinging at bad balls. "Control is God-given," Denny claims. "Like a good arm. You don't develop it, and I thank God He gave me both." Last month, in a typical McLain display of power and accuracy, Denny fired seven straight fastballs at Carl Yastrzemski, Boston's batting champ. Every one of them was a strike, and Yastrzemski only postponed the inevitable by fouling off four pitches before he went down swinging. Says Umpire Ed Runge: "I don't think McLain ever throws anything but a strike intentionally...
...BUICK OPEN (CBS, 5-6 p.m., concluding on Sunday, 4-6 p.m.). The four finishing holes on the par-72 Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club, Grand Blanc, Mich., with Defending Champ Julius Boros and 143 other contestants. Live...
Plump and prosperous at the age of 45, ex-Middleweight Champ Rocky Graziano knocks out little more than clichés these days as a TV "personality." His old nemesis, Tony Zale, also ex-champ, and now 54, reserves his clinches for an occasional guest in the Manhattan pub where he works as "greeter." So when the two retired fighters met last week in a flack-fixed rematch, their panting efforts damaged nothing but the memories of the three Pier Six brawls-among the most savage in all boxing history-that they slugged out from 1946 to 1948. Graziano...
Dancer's choicest champ is Nevele Pride, a three-year-old trotter* who is hooked on hot dogs, beer and cigarettes (he does not smoke them; he eats them). Despite those hang-ups, Dancer calls him "the best trotter I've ever driven." Last week at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, Dancer drove Nevele Pride to his 30th and richest victory in 33 starts in the $166,746 Dexter...
...dolls as their boats stuttered across the stony seas. Aboard Thunderbird V, a 31-ft. inboard, Novice Navigator Rocky Marciano, now 43, wished openly that he had stayed on dry land. "I'd rather fight Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott at the same time," the ex-heavyweight champ told Driver Dick Genth...