Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cynics suggested that the Astros owed it all to the funhouse they call home. To be sure, Houston's two-year-old Astrodome is a chamber of horrors for rival ballplayers. Owner Roy Hofheinz's $31.6 million Xanadu has an outfield with the consistency of cobblestones; the infield is a bright green Chemstrand rug that ricochets grounders into the outfield like .30 cal. bullets...
Green Stealer. Many of them are still as green as their infield rug, but they have lots of time for growing. The team's average age is 23.8 years. All-Star Second Baseman Joe Morgan, 22, whom the Astros plucked three years ago from California's Oakland City College, was hitting .315 until last week, when a batting-practice liner crunched into his right kneecap, putting him out for three weeks. With Rookie Shortstop Sonny Jackson, 21, a .296 hitter who fields like a jackrabbit and steals bases on the side (24 this year), the Astros have...
...scheduled première night of the Ypsilanti Greek Theater last week, there was a plywood stage covering the infield and classic columns standing in front of the bases of the Eastern Michigan University ball park. From the home-team dugout, a 16-piece orchestra played eerie music, specially composed by Iannis Xenakis, while 1,500 gowned and black-tied first-nighters took their blue-cushioned seats in the weather-beaten grandstand. The guests included Broadway Actress Rosemary Harris and a clutch of local politicians, but this was one première where it was more important to see than...
...prime purpose of journalism is to shed light. And our main medium for such illumination is the printed word. The words for this week's cover story on San Francisco Giants Pitcher Juan Marichal are those of Sport Writer Charles Parmiter, working with a good infield of correspondents, all under the editing eye of Senior Editor George Daniels. Parmiter's story sheds new light not only on the sport but also on the science and sociology of baseball...
...Wels (.400) was named to the first- infield, along with third-baseman Wood (.341) of B.U. and Fran Riley and Tom Anderson...