Word: koufax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speed and pitching to make up for their gradual loss of gun power. A typical Dodger "big inning" then consisted of Maury Wills beating out an infield hit, stealing second, advancing to third on a ground out and finally scoring on a sacrifice fly. With fireballers like Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale holding forth on the mound, that one run was often enough...
...novelists. In The Summer Game, Roger Angell celebrates a field that never was: the Interior Stadium. "Baseball in the mind . . . is a game of recollections, recapturing and visions . . . anyone can play this private game, extending it to extraordinary varieties and possibilities in his mind. Ruth bats against Sandy Koufax or Sam McDowell . . . Hubbell pitches to Ted Williams. Baseball, I must conclude, is intensely remembered because only baseball is so intensely watched...
...Giants' Pitcher Juan Marichal once said, "is that he can hit any pitch. I don't mean only strikes. He can hit a ball off his ankles or off his ear." Asked if he had found any effective way to pitch to Clemente, former Dodger Speedballer Sandy Koufax said, "Sure, roll the ball...
Induction into Baseball's Hall of Fame is an occasion for hardened professionals to melt. "I thank everybody for making this day necessary," said Yogi Berra, wiping away a tear. The youngest player ever to be inducted, Sandy Koufax, 36, thanked the coach "who pushed me, shoved me, embarrassed me and made me work, and thank God for him." After similar expressions from Lefty Gomez, Early Wynn and Buck Leonard, it came time for the award to Josh Gibson, the greatest batter in the Negro leagues. Gibson died in 1947, but Josh Gibson Jr. was on hand to receive...
...part, the Army contends that Specialist Smith has only been following in the footsteps of other professional athletes-Joe Louis, Joe Di-Maggio, Sandy Koufax and Roosevelt Grier, for example-who continued to concentrate on their specialty while in uniform. Anyway, says Major Willis Johnson, chief of the Army's sports office, "Stan Smith is unique. He isn't a soldier in the original concept of soldiering. Smith is a national asset...