Word: guys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GARY MOORE. By limiting his gestures and movements to those he would make in conversation with people only a few feet away, he "keeps his motions congruous with the distance his audiences are from their TV sets" and comes across "as a nice guy in a chat with a neighbor...
...Baseball," Birdie told his men, "is exactly what Branch Rickey said it was: 'A race between a man and a ball.' Baseball is a game of inches. A guy catches the ball on the tip of his glove, a batter tops a ball and beats a throw to first. Or a fellow gets up in the ninth and comes through with a liner between third and short-he's a hero. Two inches the other way and he's a bum because he hit into a double play. The only thing...
...Talent." Manager-of-the-Year Tebbetts' own popularity impressed him not at all. "If my players like me," he reflects, "it's an accident of personality. I happen to like my players and I treat them like men. I don't know anything about patting one guy on the back and bawling another out. I don't have any doghouses, and I don't deal in personalities. It doesn't make any difference to me if a guy has a good or a bad personality. I play talent. If a guy is not producing...
...play in the big leagues. Now you're going to do things my way and see how we make out." Hoak has been making out so well that he is third in the league in Runs Batted In (49). Says he: "Birdie's the guy who helped me-the helpful little things, the kind of little things that can help a little guy like me. He's the best manager I ever played...
...Aldeburgh, solicitor general and recorder of London, Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1594 Elizabeth raised him to be Her Majesty's Attorney General. In this post Coke's success was so great (he prosecuted both the traitorous Earl of Essex and the wretched Guy Fawkes) that James I made him Chief Justice of the Common Pleas-and overnight Coke became another...