Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With one out in the fifth inning, Gibson hit a blooper into left field; Tom Tresh raced in, got a glove on the ball--and couldn't hold it. Curt Flood then rapped a tailor-made double play ball to Yank second baseman Bobby Richardson--who couldn't hold it either. Lou Brock singled Gibson home, and then Bill White hit a bounder to Richardson which should have ended the inning with a double play, but the relay to first was slow and Brock scored from third...
...nation's teenagers, who number 22 million and are growing as a group three times faster than the total population. Today's teen-ager seems less excited by his new Impala or Honda and his closetful of clothes than his father was about a new baseball glove. The real excitement is coming from the merchants, the admen and the market researchers, who are just beginning to realize fully the enormous potential that faces them. Teen-agers now have an income of about $12 billion a year-and they spend it almost as fast as they...
...longtime admirers of Hank Bauer were surprised to note that your artist, Boris Chaliapin, used a somewhat out-of-date glove in his illustration. The three-finger style glove was last used about 1959, when it gave way to what was popularly called "the six-finger" glove. Oddly enough, our Hank Bauer model of the 1950s was a three-finger glove...
...score-board," says Turley, now a pitching coach with the Boston Red Sox. "Hank couldn't quite catch up to the ball. But somehow, God only knows how, he got close enough to tip it with his bare hand -and flip it right into Mickey Mantle's glove. Hank crashed into the Scoreboard, bounced off and trotted back to right-field." Then there was the last game of the 1951 World Series, against the New York Giants. Bauer had put the Yankees ahead with a bases-loaded triple. But the Giants rallied in the ninth inning...
...Light Shine." Jackie attended only one affair - a 4½-hour reception for some 5,600 invited Democrats held by Averell Harriman. Dressed in a striking white silk brocade, she shunned jewelry, greeted guests with a white glove and a soft "Nice to see you." In the hotel's auditorium, Actor Fredric March and his actress wife Florence Eldridge read poetry favored by President Kennedy and excerpts from some of his most memorable speeches. March said beforehand that Kennedy "would have deplored sadness in any of us"; yet few could check tears as he recited Alan Seeger...