Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using the code name "Henry," Morgan played such a convincing game, according to Castro, that Trujillo gave him $78,750 in Miami to buy arms, sent three boatloads of weapons. When the conspirators set a target date for an uprising in Havana, Castro called a halt. The top 40 plotters were summoned to Morgan's home for a "final briefing." Police poured in the doors. Castro himself stepped out of a back room. "What were you going to be minister of?" he sneered at an ashen-faced Havana contractor. Castro's cops jailed 10,000 Cubans, most...
...star is a tall, trim (6 ft. 3 in., 190 Ibs.), swarthily handsome rightfielder, who makes the bobby-soxers squeal, pulls seasoned fans into Cleveland Stadium two hours early to watch him take his cuts in the batting cage. When he comes to the plate during a game, the stands fall silent and candy butchers ignore customers to steal a look. Rocco Domenico Colavito, just turned 26, stirs excitement every time he picks up his medium (33 oz.) bat, paws with his right foot in the box until he is rooted like an oak, flexes his shoulder muscles by whipping...
...Boston's Jackie Jensen in runs batted in (122 v. 113). This year Rocky is hitting better than ever. Like any good slugger, he can come alive at any moment, and last week, swinging with power and precision, he came alive. Fighting his way out Of a 25-game slump, Rocky drove in five runs to raise his total to 88, second in the league to the 91 of Washington's Harmon ("The Killer") Killebrew, hit two home runs to boost his figure to 34, just two short of Killebrew's total. It hardly mattered that Rocky...
...Little Leaguer. Not even the dedicated Ted Williams approaches the game with more diligence-or more confidence -than Rocky Colavito. a man who lives baseball with the intensity of a Little Leaguer. He mumbles over box scores like a scholar spelling out Sanskrit; he shuns movies on the day of a game for fear that they will dull his batting eye; he murmurs a quiet prayer every time he goes to the plate. He can hardly wait to get out to rightfield, where his throwing arm is baseball's strongest; he can hardly wait to get back...
...With Rookie Bob Allison. 25. third in the league at week's end in home runs (27), Killebrew is the mainstay of Washington's new string of sluggers (TIME, July 20) that drew 12,198 to Griffith Stadium even as the team was dropping the final game of its 18-game losing streak. In other years, Griffith Stadium would go for months without such a crowd...