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Word: hander (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cincinnati Right-Hander Joey Jay, who had never won more than nine games in a season for the Milwaukee Braves be fore they traded him off last winter, became the first National Leaguer to win 20 games in 1961 by winning a 1-0 four-hitter from his former teammates. In the American League, Detroit's Frank Lary finally joined New York's Whitey Ford in the 20-game circle with a 3-1 five-hitter against Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Sep. 22, 1961 | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...sand lot at 17 and struck out 348 batters for the Cleveland Indians in 1946. Such a pitcher also is moonfaced Michael Jones, a $3,000-bonus rookie who plays for Johnson City, Tenn., a St. Louis Cardinals class D farm club. A rangy (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) right-hander with a smoky fastball, shy Mike Jones has yet another distinction: at 16, he is the youngest player in organized baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youngest Rookie | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...left-hander who works carefully up from the lower right-hand corner so as not to smear his work, Mauldin generally has finished next day's cartoon by 6, personally escorts it to the engraving department ("I would never trust a copy boy with it") before "heading out for the Bismarck, a Post-Dispatch hangout, for a relaxing martini or two with friends. But his thoughts are never far from the job. His second wife Natalie, a Sarah Lawrence graduate whom Mauldin met at a Manhattan party after the war, has learned not to talk to Bill at bedtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hit It If It's Big | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Famed in Los Angeles as the gladdest glad-hander of them all, Norris Poulson made the mistake of trying to slug it out with Yorty. He linked Yorty with Nevada gamblers, claimed his opponent had underworld support. Yorty sued for $3,300,000 for slander. Suffering from a severe case of laryngitis, Poulson also made the tactical error of appearing on television shows with the vigorous Yorty, left the impression that he was a sick and tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: Renegade's Triumph | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...play that will keep loyal Ivy League baseball fans (if there is such a thing) talking all winter over their hot toddies came is the last of the ninth inning, with Yale leading, 1-0. Bob Kelly, the Blue's sophomore right-hander, was on his way to a three-hit shutout...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Bulldogs Edge Crimson Nine, 1-0 | 5/22/1961 | See Source »

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