Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focus of attention was Tony Conigliaro, who returned to baseball after a three-year absence. Tony c., the Sax designated hitter, exhibiting the sarne flair for the dramatie he has exhibited throughout his career, punched a clean line drive single on his first time at bat in three years to the thunderous approval of the Fenway crowed Conigliaro didn't fare as well in his other times at bat, grounding our three times...
...other spotlight of the day was on the Brewer's designated hitter. Hank Aaron, who appeared in his first American League game. Aaron received a walk from Red Sox pitcher Luis Tiant his first time up, to the disapproval of the fans, but went 0 for 3 the rest of the day, including a ground, out in the eighth inning with two men on base...
Leigh Hogan will return to first base this season. Hogan, an excellent hitter with good speed, was described by Park as "probably the best first baseman that we've had since I've been here." He was named All-GBL last year and hit a torrid .579 for the month of May, finishing the season with a .368 average...
CLEVELAND 105, PHILADELPHIA 102; STEELERS BLAST BILLS; SEAVER HURLS TWO-HITTER- such is the stuff of which basic sports reporting is made. As a weekly newsmagazine, however, TIME has never wanted to deliver to its readers a day-by-day account of what TV calls "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." Rather, as Sport Writer Philip Taubman puts it, "our contribution can be to go into stories with more depth or come at them from another direction." So it is with Taubman's cover story this week on Goalie Bernie Parent of the Philadelphia Flyers, whose...
...needs the glove of an all-star shortstop, the agility of a gold-medal gymnast, the reflexes of a championship racing-car driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...