Word: grampa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year that he set a major league record for shortstops with a .985 fielding average. He admits to being 38, but instead of slowing down, he just keeps suh-wooooshing along. When Cub Manager Leo Durocher took over the ball club three years ago, he started calling Banks "old grampa" and at one point asked the baseball writers to "knock off that Mr. Cub stuff." Said Durocher: "The guy's wearing out. He can't go on forever." Now Durocher seems convinced that Banks intends to do just that. "I retired him three years in a row," marvels...
...truck backfired and the Cubs finished last, Durocher realized his mistake. "Let me be the first to say I've mellowed," he announced this spring. He did make a few cracks about the advancing age (36) of the Cubs' two-time Most Valuable Player, Ernie Banks-"Old grampa's wearing out"-but he took those words back last week when Banks hit his 17th homer of the season. The rest of the Cubs got the sugar lip-and the results are astonishing. Pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, whose record last year was 6-8, is 12-7 this year...