Word: homerun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rico Petrocelli hit his first homerun of the spring season, and Tony Conigliaro began his comeback with a single and a double in three trips...
Catcher Dick Diehl had an equally admirable afternoon, delighting reunioners with three hits that drove in four runs. One of Diehl's feats, a prodigious drive beyond the grasp of the respectfully distant outfielders, would surely have been a homerun in any field with a fence. At Splinter Stadium, though, with its uncontained outfield pasture, the outfielders had time to rescue the ball before the massive catcher could make the turn at third, thus holding him to a triple...
...loss to the American League, though, would hurt even more. In an era which has seen a growing trend toward specialization and an orgiastic over-emphasis on the homerun, Kaline is one of the few who can do everything brilliantly, one of the few genuinely exciting players in baseball. He has come back before. For baseball's sake we can only hope he will again...
...rookie pitcher, who threw the leagues' first no-hitter since 1958 against the Orioles Saturday, may not be a perfect specimen of the brash rookie of the great school of You Know Me Al, but he is close enough to it to provide welcome relief from the league's homerun treadmill to oblivion...
...rookie pitcher, who threw the leagues' first no-hitter since 1958 against the Orioles Saturday, may not be a perfect specimen of the brash rookie of the great school of You Know Me Al, but he is close enough to it to provide welcome relief from the league's homerun treadmill to oblivion...