Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aiding the Poor. The Senate Finance Committee investigators did not allege overcharging by Polansky-but in drawing attention to his unusually large payments, they seemed to be implying that the doctor was bilking the Government. Actually, Polansky, no Cadillac-and-country-club doctor, has practiced for 21 years in the grubby Lake Michigan port of Benton Harbor. His dilapidated office is above a clothing store on West Main Street. Working with him are three full-time assistants...
Even though they boasted some of baseball's most gifted players, the 1968 Minnesota Twins finished a dismal seventh in the American League. Recalls Catcher John Roseboro: "This was not a happy ball club. The guys couldn't get together with each other or the front office. Someone was always grousing about himself or conditions on the team." Suddenly, it is the other American League clubs that are doing the grousing-about Minnesota. With polished thievery on the base paths to complement their power at the plate, the Twins are leading the league's Western Division...
...himself on New York City sandlots. A Twins scout came out to see him play in a doubleheader one day, and Carew responded by whacking a single, five doubles and a grand-slam homer. He soon had a Twins contract in his pocket, was called up to the parent club in 1967 after only three years of minor-league ball. Hitting over .300 by midseason, he was the only rookie picked to start on the American League All-Star team. He wound up the season with a solid .292 average and was a clearcut choice for Rookie-of-the-Year...
...more alert now than we were a year ago," says Carew. "Martin has given a whole new spirit to the team." Roseboro and Killebrew, the club's elder statesmen, agree. "Martin gets excited and raises a lot of hell," says Roseboro, "but he keeps you on your toes." Says Killebrew: "This is a happy team now. I really think we can win it all this year." If they do, they can attribute their success to the fact that, compared with last year's band of bickering individualists, the 1969 Twins have become downright fraternal...
...Hercules stepping out of a bronze with his club...