Word: gopher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give his top pitcher, Juan Marichal (season's record: 22-11), an extra day of rest, Franks started Bob Shaw in the second game against the Reds. The Reds won, 7-4. Next day Marichal was so relaxed that he threw three gopher balls in two innings, and the Reds won again, 7-1. That cut the Giants' lead to 3½ games over Cincinnati, only two games over the incredible Los Angeles Dodgers, who won their sixth straight in typical Dodger fashion; trailing the Milwaukee Braves 6-1, they fought back to tie the score...
...lead, Gibson was unbeatable. He fired practically nothing but fastballs ("If they hit it, they hit it. If they don't, they don't") at the frenziedly swinging Yanks who tried everything-even throwing bats his way. Striking out nine, Gibson kept things barely interesting by feeding gopher balls to Mantle, Linz and Clete Boyer. Then with an eye for irony, he persuaded Bobby Richardson, the Yankees' leading hitter, to pop up for the last out. By a score of 7-5, the St. Louis Cardinals had their first world championship in 18 years. Pitcher Gibson...
Pitcher Bob Turley served up a gopher ball to the Tigers' Harvey Kuenn. "It was right at the Yankee Stadium 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...
...manager now; he starts sentences with "I may not be much of a manager, but . . ." They have a .189 hitter in the starting lineup (not even the Mets can match that), and they have a bullpen full of people who are reasonably skilled in the difficult art of throwing gopher balls. It is a slow process, but the Yankees are learning how to lose. So far this season, they have already dropped six out of ten to the sixth-place Boston Red Sox, three out of seven to the last-place Kansas City Athletics-one by the score...
Early in the third period Minnesota's captain scored the last Gopher goal. Forward Treadwell, assisted by Baldy Smith and Crimson's fourth score 4 minutes later. With less than three minutes left. Minnesota pulled their goalie, and six desperate Gophers moved in on Harvard goalie Brandy Sweitzer who withstood the storm, making one brilliant save...