Word: home-run
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...five seasons to establish himself as one of the most dangerous hitters in the game, hiked his salary to $57,000 after a spring holdout. That is not nearly enough. "I'm going to be the first player who is not a 20-game winner or a home-run hitter to make $100,000 a year," he insists...
...whiz. "Then it was strategy and quick thinking, and if you didn't play with your noodle you didn't play at all." Through 19 years in both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home-run honors with the Cincinnati Reds (16 in 1901) and the Detroit Tigers (seven in 1908). His total of 312 triples set a record that has yet to be broken-even Willie Mays, now in his 18th season, has only...
Carl Yastrzemski's fourth home-run of the young season and Dick Ellsworth's five-hit pitching gave the Boston Red Sox a 2-0 victory over the White Sox yesterday...
They traded loveable Felix Mantilla for a lame-armed utility infielder. They traded home-run hitting Dick Stuart for a lame-armed pitcher. They virtually gave away a .290 hitter, Eddie Bressoud. They virtually gave away their best pitcher, Earl Wilson...
...supply, ranging from the annual per-capita consumption of paper (540 Ibs.) to the number of dishes (nine) that the typical family breaks in the course of a year. Sports fans are longtime lovers of the well-tempered statistic. To know that Roger Maris replaced Babe Ruth as the home-run king through a fluke in total games played, is to be an aficionado instead of an amateur. For the average American, to be told that a lofting astronaut has threaded a celestial needle of time and place and reached orbit is to be faced with the incomprehensible...