Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...74th happy return, the gifts included: 1) a cigarette box made from the newly dismantled Polo Grounds' foul pole; 2) four Polo Grounds seats, the same row in which he and his wife sat when they met in 1923; 3) a portable TV; 4) a color TV; and 5) a traveling case. There was a sextet of visiting Dodgers who rendered a birthday stanza more or less to the tune of The Band Played On. What more could a guy want? Since it was New York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, and he is, even at his age, still...
...between them, they have already won 27 games this year. Shortstop Maury Wills is the same electrifying base runner who stole a record 104 bases in 1962 (he has 31 so far).Catcher John Roseboro, whose lifetime average is .240, was batting .310before he cut a finger on a foul tip. But still the Dodgers lose: twostraight to the sixth-place Chicago Cubs last week, two out of four tothe ninth-place Houston Colts. Then those hated San Francisco Giants inflicted an 11-3 thrashing, scoring nine runs in one nightmarish inning...
...Foul!" There were instant shouts of "foul!" Safety engineers complained that the demonstration was longer on publicity value than on detached scientific measurements. Renault President Vin cent Grob called the experiment "biased, proving only that if a big, heavy object can be directed to hit a small object, the small object can be hurt." U.S. compact-car makers, who have long resented being lumped with foreign-made economy cars in statistical surveys, discreetly pointed out that the only U.S.-made compacts involved in the Connecticut tests (two Falcons and a Rambler) had emerged in comparatively good condition-but naturally, these...
...battered his way past an Argentine defender, toed a loose ball in front of the goal, and booted it home for the tying score. A roar like thunder burst from 50,000 throats. Then there was stunned silence in the stands. Referee Angel Eduardo Pazos, a Uruguayan, signaled a foul against Peru and disallowed the goal...
...only five runs all year, drove in five that afternoon. Dick Smith, who had 13 hits to show for the whole season, got five in six trips to the plate. The Cubs, naturally, were in a state of complete shock. The catcher and first baseman collided chasing a foul ball. The rightfielder let a routine fly slip through his hands. One Met run scored on a passed ball, and another crossed the plate on a balk. Final score: Mets 19, Chicago...