Word: lefthandedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Lenin Peace Prizes, awarded on May Day eve, honored a couple of unlikely apostles of tranquillity last week: Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro and Guinea's President Sékou Touré. To Touré the prize seemed something of a lefthanded compliment. "We are not Communists...
MICKEY MANTLE was off to his best spring since 1956-when he led the American League in batting, home runs and RBIs. He ran up a 16-game hitting streak, was batting a lusty .329, and his nine home runs and 24 RBIs topped both leagues. He had personally accounted...
A New Warmth. Casey Stengel became the most successful manager in baseball history. More than that, he gave the Yankees a warmth they had never had before. Until he signed with the Yankees, Stengel had been the funniest failure in the game. In 1910 Casey was playing the outfield in...
Veteran Bob Friend (17-12), who relies on breaking pitches. In addition, the Pirates have Southpaws Harvey Haddix (11-10) and Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell (13-8) to confound the predominantly lefthanded Yankees' hitting power. Out in the bullpen is one of baseball's top relief men: ElRoy...
In 1946 Spahn was a mature, 25-year-old rookie with the Boston Braves who could fire his high, hard one all afternoon. But, like all pitchers, Spahn soon found his fastball tailing off, began to develop his assortment of multiple-speed curves. Ten years ago, when he saw that...