Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belt of the Muse. In moments of introspection Musician Engel thinks of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "That genius," he says, "wrote to order. He had no time for the muse to belt him." If the muse has failed to lay a glove on Engel, it is chiefly because he moves too fast. He has presided over the pit orchestras of roughly 130 Broadway productions, headed an esoteric organization called the Madrigal Singers, written reams of articles and a bag of books, including a five-volume study of European music entitled Renaissance to Baroque...
Born in Dallas, Ernie Banks was a star in high school basketball and football, high-jumped 5 ft. 11 in., ran a quarter-mile in 51 sec. and never played baseball. "My dad, he bought me a glove for $2.98, and he used to bribe me with nickels and dimes to play catch," he recalls. In 1950, a Negro league scout spotted him playing softball, and he became a barnstormer with the Kansas City Monarchs. "Ten-fifteen -maybe twenty thousand miles a year, and our biggest night was in Hastings, Neb.." says Banks. "We got $15 apiece...
...Cubs bought him for $15,000 and gave him what he lacked. Infielder Eddie Miksis loaned him a glove, and Coach Ray Blades bought him a book called How to Play Baseball. Banks has still never learned how to play shortstop in the manner of Honus Wagner or Marty Marion. Tired by the grind of playing day after day (he has started every game this year), Banks has trouble getting the right jump on the ball, sometimes boots the play that sets up a rally. But, better than any other shortstop in history, Ernie Banks can right the score...
...They're mad, simply mad," cooed a Los Angeles coed out shopping for her fall regalia last week. What drives the girls mad-and may well make the boys a lot madder-is this fall's latest fashion: a glove-tight, foot-to-waist cross between Ebenezer's red flannel long Johns and Fonteyn's ballet costume. The biggest thing since Bermuda shorts, the new tights emphasize that slender, leggy look everyone strives for. Children wear them for play, college girls in class under skirt or kilt; working girls and young matrons buy them for lounging...
...matured simultaneously in personality and pitching perspicacity. At Milwaukee's Triple-A Wichita farm (where he won 17, lost ten last year), Joey's temperament was forcibly improved through stern discipline. In 1956 he was socked with a $500 fine (later reduced to $250) for throwing his glove, stalking off the field and out of the park in disgust at an umpire's call. Last year, after a tongue-lashing from Wichita Manager Ben Geraghty for not trying hard enough, Jay took hold and won his last six straight. Since becoming ti Milwaukee starter this June...