Word: hutch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uniform to shreds, and pounded a concrete wall until his knuckles were bruised and bleeding. When Hutchinson was pitching for Detroit, recalls Yankee Yogi Berra, "I could always tell how he had done when we followed the Tigers into a town. If we got stools in the dressing room. Hutch had won. If we got kindling, he had lost." But for all his anger, Hutch the manager is a gentle despot, careful not to dress down his players in public, never to ridicule their mistakes. "You can't go up to a man who's making...
Particularly in his handling of Cincinnati's thin, erratic pitching staff, Hutchinson proved himself a master tactician. An iron-man pitcher in his own day (112 complete games in 169 starts), Hutch let his starting pitchers try to work themselves out of jams instead of yanking them at the first sign of trouble. "If I keep taking you out," he said, "you'll never learn how to pitch. You can't keep looking back over your shoulder at the bullpen." Forced to pace themselves carefully, the youngster starters worked on control, wasted few pitches. Little League Alumnus...
Fred Hutchinson of the Reds plans to start Robinson in left, Pinson in center, and Lynch, Post or Gus Bell in right, unless the game is at Crosley Field, in which case Hutch will put Robinson in right, Pinson in center, and Lynch, Post of Bell in left. Isn't baseball fascinating...
...World War I). His manner of spreading good will, however, was sometimes open to question. In Australia, he kept the Prime Minister waiting for an appointment, breezily told the press that the acoustically improved stage of which the citizens of Brisbane were so proud was nothing but a "rabbit hutch.'' But he also delighted in lashing out at his own country, which he called "the laziest nation in the world; I foresee a generation which will never get out of bed. I advise as many English musicians as possible to leave the country." Married three times-the last...
...poor Vangel Griffin goes forth to have his values laundered. He leaves his wife (a bitch, in his words), his job in a law firm (a bore), and his country (a Babbitt hutch), and goes to Spain. Vangel has some sense of purpose: he intends to commit suicide in exactly one year. A woman takes his mind off his goal...