Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...robbed!" came the battle cry. A youth hurdled a 3½-ft. fence onto the track, brandished a fist-and hundreds swarmed after him. They attacked the judge's booth at the finish line, injuring John DeMatteo, who was pinned inside. They threw bottles at the infield tote board until the lights that indicate the amount of money bet finally winked out. They pulled a sulky from the paddock and set it afire. Bands of vandals dashed wildly through the stands, breaking windows, lighting bonfires, ripping program booths apart...
...Yankees could not hit it. The top of the Yankee order, producers of 73 home runs this year, did not get the ball in front of the plate until the sixth inning. Mickey Mantle had two Ks beside his name in the scorebook before he managed an infield pop-up-and drop-kicked his batting helmet halfway to the dugout. At last, Tommy Tresh got to Koufax for a two-run homer. But Bobby Richardson, who struck out only 22 times all season, whiffed three times. "That," muttered a Yankee, "is an act of God." Finally, with...
Died. John Franklin ("Home Run") Baker, 77, Hall of Fame slugger in baseball's era of the "dead ball," who as a third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics in Connie Mack's famed "$100,000 infield" four times led the American League in homers (peak year: 1913, with twelve), retired in 1922 to his Maryland farm when his legs started to fail; of a stroke; in Trappe...
...honored custom among ballplayers to brag loudest about what they do worst. So a pitcher who manages to beat out an infield roller struts around gloating, "Man! I really put the wood to it that time!" And Leon Wagner of the Los Angeles Angels confides: "I'm one of the best defensive outfielders in the game." At 29, Wagner may not be the game's worst gloveman (unlike Yogi Berra, he has never let a descending fly ball conk him on the head), but the tag of "Butcher" has stuck with him through three ball clubs and five...
...ninth Yale seemed to have finally given up. Closely resembling the pattern made famous by the New York Mets, the Bulldog infield made two errors on one play, an achievement which produced two more Crimson runs. Gilmor concluded the day's point making in a more orthodox fashion, placing his second home run past the range of Eli right fielder John Hunsaker...