Word: clutchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd, and out flew a sparrow. Such antics made it easy to forget the fact that his lifetime batting average over a dozen big-league seasons was a solid .284, and that he outhit Babe Ruth in the 1923 World Series-batting .417 and winning two games singlehanded with clutch home runs...
...players felt the excitement most of all. "I've never seen this team so spirited," said Manager Bragan. How else to explain the fact that Catcher Gene Oliver, who hit only 13 home runs all last year, clouted four in 24 hours to win two games? Or the clutch pinch-hitting of Don Dillard (average: .200), who drove in the winning run twice in a week in the last inning? Or the fantastic spurt of Third Baseman Eddie Mathews, who raised his average 26 points (to .259) and accounted for 25 runs in nine games...
...boning up on the history and folklore of the place he is visiting. For a sojourn in Italy this summer, a Manhattan couple came armed with H. V. Morton's A Traveller in Rome and A Traveller in Italy, Luigi Barzini's The Italians, and a clutch of Moravia novels. Another species of Experience Maximizer is represented by Washington's Laughlin Phillips, a former State Department officer, who during shore vacations in Maryland cracks nothing but shellfish and books on shellfish...
...helping build Gladstone's $117 million alumina refinery. New workers are most urgently needed in the far-out outback of Western Australia, where some of the world's richest iron-ore reserves have been discovered since 1960 and are being developed in company with a whole clutch of vast new enterprises, notably a $100 million steel complex, bauxite mines, $100 million worth of oil refineries at Kwinana, a 500-mile railroad to Kalgoorlie. In the southwest's ambitious Esperance project, foreign labor has also helped turn 14 million arid acres into promising farm land that will boost...
...clutch through vespers and through...