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Word: kanehl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were also called the Amazin' Mets, because they did not play baseball very well. They were, as everyone knows, terrible. But the people of Flushing Meadow loved them; they loved the antics performed by the Amazin's and they loved their names: Marvelous Marv Throneberry, Hot Rod Kanehl, Choo Choo Coleman. The people went to Shea Stadium, where the Mets booted away their home games and waved banners that proclaimed LOSING ISN'T EVERYTHING-IT'S THE ONLY THING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Fable for Our Time | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...Mets. Without a decent pitcher, or a competent fielder on the team, the amazin' Mets are really in bad shape. Rookie secondbaseman Hot Rod Kanehl is the only young player of promise on the team, and despite the game determination of the fading Gil Hodges and Richie Ashburn to play again next season, the Mets may be even worse next year than they...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: 1962 Baseball Season | 8/16/1962 | See Source »

Frank Thomas is definitely a major-league power hitter, and a good one, but he, Ashburn, and Kanehl, are really the only bright spots in the Mets' bleak picture. and next year there may be just Thomas and Kanehl...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: 1962 Baseball Season | 8/16/1962 | See Source »

...amazing crop of rookies: Tom Tresh, Bernie Allen, Dick Radatz, Manny Jiminez, Dave Stenhouse, Cal, Koonce, and Rod Kanehl, and we've seen potential stars suddenly come into their own--Tommy Davis, Frank Howard, Richie Rollins, Don Drysdale, Chuck Hinton, to name only...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Baseball Season: One of the Greats | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

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