Word: lead-off
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...Francisco Giants, needing another starting pitcher, traded for Baltimore's Billy O'Dell, 27, who had a fine E.R.A. of 2.94 last year and a 10-12 record. Needing a second baseman, they got one of the best and a crack lead-off man to boot: St. Louis' Don Blasingame (.289) who should score freely, batting ahead of Willie Mays (.313), Willie McCovey (.354) and Orlando Cepeda (.317)¶ The Milwaukee Braves have New Manager Chuck Dressen, a nonstop talker and one of baseball's finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled...
Yesterday in a game against the University of New Hampshire that was rained out at the end of two and a half innings, the Yardlings proved that they are again hitting at their early-season pace. The season's leader at the plate with a .368 average is lead-off man Mike Drummey...
...thing that happened to Wadsworth in the very first inning should never happen to any pitcher. After allowing a long, lead-off triple, the stocky right-hander bore down and struck out the number-two Brown hitter, and then got the three and four men to hit easy infield grounders. These should have been routine "outs," but instead they resulted in an aggregate of three errors by Crimson fielders...
Veeck is the man who gave Cleveland fans a "bartenders' day," staged midget-auto races in the ballpark, and with a pennant winner (1948), posted a major-league record for season attendance that still stands. In St. Louis, he gave the fans clowns, once used a midget as lead-off batter (he drew a base on balls), even let spectators manage the team for several games by flashing "yes" and "no" cards to questions of strategy. Yet the carnival atmosphere was no substitute for success. The Browns did not win, and Veeck tried to get the franchise transferred...
...lead-off story, The Adulterous Woman, might have been titled Death of a Salesman's Wife. Janine is a plumpish, childless French housewife in North Africa; for 25 years her marriage has been nourished on the bread-crumb rations of the need to be needed. Accompanying her salesman husband on a tour of his selling territory, Janine is struck by the stoic dignity of the Arabs, and by the cruel yet sensuous landscape. One night she steals out to the desert's edge to be laved by "the water of night ... in wave after wave, rising up even...