Word: hummers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three veterans pace the Princeton team, always an Ivy threat. Senior center Chris Thomford and forward John Hummer and Geoff Petrie are capable, experienced ballplayers who rebound and shoot well...
Certain that the powerhitting Tigers would be looking for fastballs and swinging freely, Gibson shrewdly mixed up his pitches, alternating sliders and slow curves with his "hummer." By the end of the eighth inning, 14 Tigers had gone down on strikes. When Gibson took the mound in the ninth, only one strikeout stood between him and Sandy Koufax's World Series record. He got that, and more. Detroit Outfielder Al Kaline nailed futilely at a fastball. First Baseman Norm Cash missed a slider by a mile. Then, with a final flourish, Gibson slipped another slider past Outfielder Willie Horton...
More often than not, Denny's second pitch is identical to the first. So is the third. He delights in tweaking danger by the nose just for the sheer, perverse fun of it. An opponent who hits a home run off McLain's fastball will probably get another hummer the next time he comes to bat. Denny is always anxious to prove that any hit was a fluke...
...years back, talk turned to the problems of a young girl. As he listened, Poet-Author Robert Graves scratched out on the back of an envelope verse far different from his customary classical approach. He then forgot about it. But composer-friend John Benson Brooks thought it such a hummer he recently put it to music. Now Decca has included it in an album called A vant Slant, due out next month. Sample lyrics from Mend Them Fences...
Amazing sophomore Jim McMillan broke a Lion record when he piled up 37 points for a season mark of 575 in 25 games. The 6-5 New Yorker also did a tough defensive job, holding the Tigers' 6-7 forward John Hummer...