Word: leaguer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cincinnati Right-Hander Joey Jay, who had never won more than nine games in a season for the Milwaukee Braves be fore they traded him off last winter, became the first National Leaguer to win 20 games in 1961 by winning a 1-0 four-hitter from his former teammates. In the American League, Detroit's Frank Lary finally joined New York's Whitey Ford in the 20-game circle with a 3-1 five-hitter against Kansas City...
Marrying Marx. A plantation foreman's son who went to Northwestern University in 1941, married a Chicago-born Young Communist Leaguer named Janet Rosenberg, and came home yelling Marxist war cries. Jagan has simmered down in recent years, swung toward advocating order and development...
...easy mark for a stray fastball or foul tip. Before he traded his thin, hair-stuffed National League chest protector for an inflated American League model, fragile Jocko Conlan absorbed a regular beating. His hospital record: two broken collarbones, two broken elbows. Last fall in Baltimore, American Leaguer Larry Napp was struck by three successive pitches-one on the mask, two in the groin-and had to be carried off the field on a stretcher. The National League's Bill Jackowski has been twice hit in the throat by lined fouls...
Then the team began to click, thanks largely to some astute trades pulled off by moonfaced General Manager Bill DeWitt, a wily merchandiser of men who joined the Reds only last fall. In a complex deal, DeWitt got Milwaukee Pitcher Joey Jay, the first Little Leaguer to make the majors, and Chicago White Sox Third Baseman Gene Freese. Late in April, he got peppery Second Baseman Don Blasingame from San Francisco. That seemed to do the trick. Three days after Blasingame arrived, the Reds took off on a nine-game winning streak, by the end of May were in first...
...denouncing his fellow Democrats, and has been doing it ever since. Richard Richards, said Yorty. "not only has a double name, he is a master of double talk." Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown is a favorite Yorty target: "Unless Brown intends to start conducting himself like a big-leaguer, he had better stay in the minor leagues." In 1960 Yorty took out after Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kennedy: "He has destroyed the integrity of the Democratic Party by the abuse of the power of lavish amounts of money, and a calculated exploitation of his religious affiliation. I cannot take...