Word: hendley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...match for white ballplayers "when it comes to mental alertness." Back came Franks as the Giants' manager for 1965. Most experts picked the Giants to finish no better than fifth, one rung down the ladder from last year. They had only one lefthanded pitcher on their roster - Bob Hendley - whom they swiftly traded off to Chicago. Star Slugger Orlando Cepeda (31 homers, 97 RBIs in 1964) was laid up, maybe permanently, with an injured knee. Leftfielder Willie McCovey was suffering from bone spurs and fallen arches. Even Willie Mays seemed over the hill; in 1964 he had slipped under...
...fine, we'll do fine," Manager Franks kept insisting. In exchange for Pitcher Hendley, he picked up Outfielder Gabrielson, a lifetime .231 hitter; last week Gabrielson was batting .305. Franks moved Willie McCovey to first base, where he could rest his aching feet-and McCovey responded by clouting 37 homers, driving in 86 runs. He promoted peripatetic (five clubs in eight years) Spitballer Bob Shaw from the bullpen to a starting pitcher's job. By last week Shaw's record was 16 victories, only eight defeats...
Chicago's Bob Hendley was not exactly pitching batting practice either. The Dodgers scratched out a run in the fifth inning on a walk, a sacrifice, a stolen base and an error, but the first hit of the ball game was a bloop double by Los Angeles' Lou Johnson with two out in the seventh. It was also the last. If Koufax didn't know he had a no-hitter going, he must have wondered why nobody talked to him in the dugout. He struck out the side in the eighth, again in the ninth, and when...
...Paganini's on the violin, involves a clawlike motion with thumb and two fingers that serves to transform the banjo player from a plunk-plunking accompanist into a virtuoso soloist. Nobody has heard anything to equal it, says one folk expert, since the glorious days of Fisher Hendley and his Aristocratic Pigs, famed hillbillies of the early...