Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nettles started out making them in this Series, and that is largely how New York jumped off with two quick wins. Jackson, "Mr. October," dropped out of the starting lineup when he went lame early in the playoff sweep against Oakland, and Nettles came on with both bat and glove. Then he too was sidelined. October stars were falling like leaves. When the Series opened, it looked as if the man with the magic might be Bob Watson, 35, a fine but little-heralded player with losing teams for many years. Watson hit a three-run homer in his first...
...really a baseball fan, although I love the game dearly. I do not know who won the NL Golden Glove for center field in 1972. I'd be lousy at Strat...
...forget how tall Daddy was. I could tell right from the start that they were a unit and stuck together. I had never experienced that." Before the adoption became official, Helms gave the boy some baseball equipment. "If you won't keep me," asked Charles, "can I keep the glove and ball?" Charles, whose balance has improved after four operations, is a senior in forestry at North Carolina State. "Mom and Dad," he says, "always stressed that whatever your talents, just do the best and you'll make it." Says his father: "He is a blessing...
...ball. Claims Minnesota First Base Coach Karl Kuehl: "They're getting it off their foreheads and the umpires don't have the guts to do anything about it." One baseball insider asserts that Kuehl's charge is only half true. "Matt Keough keeps it in his glove. Mike Norris keeps it in his crotch. Steve McCatty and Rick Langford are the ones who keep it on their foreheads. It's grease, a salve. They all load the ball up and it makes them good. It helped turn them around in one year." Something turned Oakland...
...fielding behind him helped. Allard made a nice grab of a Gene Doucette liner in the first inning to save a hit, and second baseman Gaylord Lyman picked up a bouncer that had glanced off of Brown's glove, tagged a runner advancing from first and threw to Martelli for a sparkling double play to end the fifth...