Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brightest & Boldest. Ebullient and supremely self-confident, the new young stylesetters couldn't care less about looking like ladies. They demand to look smashing in a theatrical, sexy and aggressively individual manner. No longer are clothes meant to fit like a soft, beautifully made glove; instead, they are free and unbinding. No longer do colors blend in a bouquet-like ensemble; it is much more fun to make them clash, vibrate, gleam and sparkle. And if designers don't give them what they crave, youth invent it for themselves...
...World Series that has seen the big stars come through to make the difference finally found a little hero. Bad Boy Ken Harrelson, who's been making enemies in Boston for over a month with his aimless glove and fruitless bat, saved Lonborg with a brilliant catch of Lou Brock's drive in the first and gave him what was his only run for most of the ball game...
...against Lonborg, asked plate umpire A1 Barlick to check for a spitball to lead off the ninth, there could be no more doubt that the Cardinals were dead. It was Lonborg who should have been given the saliva test. Soon the final out was salted away in the glove of centerfielder Reggie Smith, and the Sox evened the Series...
Then on the first pitch the Card's next time up, Curt Flood hit a screaming shot toward the wall. The fabulous Yaz, off with the bat's crack, leaped three feet off the ground, stuck up his glove and speared the ball backhanded before crashing to the ground. Even St. Louis announcer Harry Caray couldn't restrain himself. "Yastrzemski is clearly a super star," he gagged...
...Chance? He would not win this game. In the first place he was a picayune materialist who constantly asked for new balls (One didn't learn until afterwards that Lonborg had penned "$10,000" on the pocket of his glove.) Furthermore Chance, was lazy. He relied on a driving, showboat follow-through to salvage an otherwise lackadasical delivery. While such tricks undoubtedly served him well in bed--one always associates Chance with Dean Martin and Bo Belinsky--they would not suffice against Lonborg's constant, balanced effort...