Word: garr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What has two golden legs, a large mouth, catches flies and answers to the call of "Beep! Beep!"? A speedy little creature called Road Runner II, that's what. In recent weeks, however, he has preferred to be known by his real name and title: Ralph Garr, leftfielder, Atlanta Braves. That's R-a-l-p-h Garr. If enough people spell it that way on the write-in ballot for the National League All-Star team, he may yet get the recognition he says he so richly deserves. "The rate I'm going," he says...
...Pittsburgh, Pirate Leftfielder Willie Stargell, who twice this season has hit three home runs in one game, clouted his eleventh homer to set a new record for the month of April. And in a 25-hit slugfest in Atlanta, the Braves' 25-year-old Ralph Garr and the San Francisco Giants' aging (40) Willie Mays collected four hits apiece. The barrage boosted Garr's average to a league-leading .434, and gave added testimony to Mays' contention that "there's a little life in these old bones...