Word: griffith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...runs batted in, despite an anemic batting average of .249. With Rookie Bob Allison. 25. third in the league at week's end in home runs (27), Killebrew is the mainstay of Washington's new string of sluggers (TIME, July 20) that drew 12,198 to Griffith Stadium even as the team was dropping the final game of its 18-game losing streak. In other years, Griffith Stadium would go for months without such a crowd...
...silence. As the season drew on, the clap-clap-clapping for a rally that once quickly faded began echoing through the ballpark in confident, continuing waves. By last week fans who had not bothered to see a game since Walter ("Big Train") Johnson retired in 1927 were hurrying to Griffith Stadium in time for batting practice, and dazzled team officials were saying that attendance for the year would be up 40%. The Washington Senators, long known for patty-ball hitting, were flashing the most exciting attack in baseball, a latter-day "murderers' row"* of strong silent men determined...
...Those Long Knockers." What makes the feats even more impressive is Griffith Stadium's pasturelike outfield. There are no near fences to invite Chinese home runs; leftfield is 350 ft. away, centerfield 401 ft., rightfield 320 ft. Faced with this expanse-and a considerable lack of talent-Washington's late owner, Clark ("The Old Fox") Griffith, relied on bunts, slap-singles and speed on the base paths. Legend has it that Griffith watered the infield to slow bunts to an unplayable dawdle, even slanted first base downhill to benefit his sprinters. One vestige of Griffith's parsimonious...
...Andy Williams Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The pleasant crooner's guests are Andy Griffith and June Valli...
...distinguished himself. But he has a thorny, give-and-ask-no-quarter personality; he also has an implacable opponent of great talent and resolve. The result is Washington's highest drama - played out on the Senate floor, in cloakrooms, at black-tie dinners, in the seats at Griffith Stadium. As written by Bill Bowen and edited by Champ Clark, see the cover story on The Strauss Affair...