Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been enough. On the mound now was Boston's other ace, Jim Lonborg, fully rested and feeling mean. Always the possessor of a smoking fastball, Lonborg had only a so-so record until the spring when Pitching Coach Sal Maglie convinced him to be less of a gentleman out there: a little brush back once in a while keeps the batters nervous. Result: Lonborg led the league in hit batsmen (19)-and also in strikeouts...
This afternoon Gentleman Jim Lonborg, author of a brilliant one-hit shut-out Thursday will try to stave off the inevitability of St. Louis' eventual victory...
...seemed to have given him another face rather than merely wrinkling his features. In his voice, his poise, under the crust of the intellectual patrician, appeared the image-calm and gentle-of a man who no doubt from adolescence had educated himself to be a gentleman...
Baseball's last legal spitball was thrown by Burleigh Arland Grimes of the New York Yankees on Sept. 20, 1934. Now 74 and a gentleman farmer in Trenton, Mo., Grimes has long since forgotten 1) to whom he threw the ball, and 2) what happened. Calvin Lee Koonce has no such problem. He clearly recalls throwing his last spitball to Johnny Callison of the Philadelphia Phillies, who grounded into a force play. Koonce's memory may be due to the fact that he is only 26, still pitches for the New York Mets-and threw his last spitter...
...successful assassins. He was no envious leftist loser and loner like Lee Harvey Oswald, no anarchist fanatic like Czolgosz (the man who killed President McKinley), no tribal desperado like Princip (who shot Archduke Ferdinand and brought on World War I). He was rather an honorable officer and gentleman, a colonel on the general staff of the German army. Why, then, did he decide to organize and lead a conspiracy against the life of the chief of state to whom, as an officer, he had sworn an oath of fidelity...