Word: leaguer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts' Suffolk County. A couple of crafty, mach 2 base runners stole their way into the already plaque-packed Baseball Hall of Fame. This year's unanimous choices: William ("Sliding Billy") Hamilton and Max ("Scoop") Carey (originally Max Carnarius). Hamil ton, a hard-hitting igth century National Leaguer who set the alltime league record for stolen bases with 797 in an era when the catcher stood far behind the plate, died in 1940. Carey, like Hamilton an out fielder, ran rampant with Pittsburgh and Brooklyn for 20 years after leaving St. Louis' Concordia Seminary...
...annual rite of autumn, as expectable as Thanksgiving. Beginning where they had left off, the Yankees in the first inning had already scored two runs and loaded the bases when the unlikeliest slugger of them all stepped into the box, looking fully as dangerous as any promising Little Leaguer. Second Baseman Bobby Richardson got every bit of his 5-ft. 9-in., 166-lb. frame behind his swing and hit a grand-slam home run into the leftfield seats. For Richardson, the home run was only the fourth of his four-year major league career. Later, with a single...
Murtaugh, former Major Leaguer who made good as a manager this year, announced his lineup yesterday with no surprises. As he promised earlier this week, he will start Dick Stuart at first base although Stuart is a right-handed batter who will be facing a right-handed pitcher...
...fact that Brosnan wrote a book surprises no National Leaguer. Though he chews tobacco with the rest of the boys, Brosnan is one of the game's rarer types: he reads Rousseau and Nietzsche, puffs on a pipe, studies his fellows through owlish spectacles, and naturally is nicknamed "the Professor." He is fond of recalling how he once dumfounded a batter by declaring from the mound: "Us ne passeront...
...strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.) athlete who followed the family path to Harvard ('54), handled the familiar end slot on the football team, passed lackadaisically through the University of Virginia law school before taking up Jack's cause. A tousle-haired, outgoing Ivy Leaguer, Teddy has more warmth than Jack, more humor than Bobby, and a rapidly maturing political skill. During his Army hitch in Germany in 1952, he assiduously rounded up votes for Jack ("We had nine absentee votes in camp; I like to think we got all of them"). While still in law school...