Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he first began reading about the subject, Jimmy Blackmon of Charlotte, N.C. has been embarrassing his elders with precocious questions on science. By the time he hit junior high school he was wondering about rockets. "He read everything he could get his hands on about them," says his father. "Everything...
Legs Crossed, Jackets Buttoned. Network rivalry hit a new peak. CBS posted a sign for its staffers: "Under no circumstances are you to patronize the NBC cafeteria." TV Reporter Vince Garrity caused an outraged flurry by flaunting ABC lapel pins in range of rival cameras. NBC went so far as to hire a professional lip reader to try to catch out-of-reach conversation, and ABC issued instructions to its staff: "Be sure when you are on camera, that you sit up straight, have your legs crossed modestly, and your jacket buttoned...
...even Yankee haters are still watching the ball games, for these days the Yanks supply their own competition. Every inning that he comes to bat, their broad-backed slugger, Mickey Charles Mantle, tangles with one of baseball's fanciest records: the massive total of 60 home runs hit by the Yankees' Babe Ruth during the 1927 season...
...Oklahoma Kid had 117 out of 154 games behind him; 42 homers were already in the book (10 righthanded, 32 lefthanded). He was eight games ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But ahead of him was the Babe's whirlwind finish. In his big year Ruth hit 17 home runs in September alone (four in the last three games...
...amphibious jeep in Maryland, named her Half Safe, tuned her up, told his wife Elinore to climb aboard, and headed for Canada. After four false starts he got to Montreal. Two years later he was ready to tool down the roads at a gay clip, and when he hit the seashore he kept right on going−splashing toward the Azores...