Word: keegan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago White Sox Coach Ray Berres was disgusted: Starter Bob Keegan refused to relax between pitches, even during pregame warmup. Coach Berres was afraid visiting Washington Senator batters would pick up the rapid rhythm and tee off on the aging (36) righthander. But Keegan was afraid that if he slowed down he would lose his balance and fall off the mound on his follow through. So they worked out a compromise: Keegan concentrated on slowing down just a little. It was enough. He beat the Senators 6-0, threw only 85 pitches, walked only two men and finished the first...
...kept the nucleus of this good staff," says Richards, "and made it stronger with trades." One trade, with Washington, brought him young (21) Cuban Mike Fornieles, who pitched a one-hitter against the A's in his major-league debut last year. Another pitching hopeful is Rookie Bob Keegan, 20-11 last season with Syracuse, where he led the International League in victories, innings pitched and shutouts...
...Lucky Stars (Sun. 10:45 p.m., ABC) is a folksy, unsponsored 15 minutes with Paul Whiteman spinning 20-year-old records and reminiscing about the good old days ("I can remember when Bing Crosby had hair and was a tenor"). Teen-Ager Junie Keegan asks the questions of "Pops" Whiteman, and treats his answers with the proper daughterly respect...
...fact is that anger and indignation-the most intellectual of our emotions-were alone portrayed successfully; the laughing anger of Shaw must be compared to Voltaire's. The brief poetical passages in John Bull's Other Island are the poorest sentimentality; even the saintly figure of Father Keegan in that play occasionally arouses shyness. In St. Joan the pathos is commonplace and the mysticism embarrassing. Shaw hardly goes deeper than the sentiment-pure though it is with the curious Irish purity-of the philanderer; and philanderers of either sex make the mistake of crediting the opposite sex with...