Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once, after a night game, Willie burst into tears. "Boss," he sobbed to Manager Leo Durocher, "you better bench me or send me back to the Millers. I'm hurtin' the team." Tough-minded, tough-tongued Leo knew better. He put his arm across Willie's shoulders. "Son," he said, "you're not going anywhere but here. Just keep swinging, because you're my centerfielder, even if you don't get a hit for the rest of the season...
...Style of His Own. The Giants' sad showing in Willie's absence, and their winning performance when he got back, established him as a big-leaguer with a promising future. "A natural-born ballplayer," said Leo Durocher. In the case of Mays, Durocher was close to the literal truth. Willie's father, Willie Sr., was called "Kitty Cat" for his lithe grace as outfielder and lead-off hitter for the Black Barons of the Negro National League, until he quit the game in 1948 (at the age of 37). Willie was only 14 months old when Willie...
...gave Willie the instincts of a ballplayer," explains Leo Durocher. "All I had to do was add a little practical advice about wearing his pants higher to give the pitchers a smaller strike zone. Otherwise, I let Willie's instincts alone. Hit the kid a fly with a couple of men on and he'll peg to the right base without thinking. Maybe I'll tell him where to play for this or that batter, or when to wait out a pitcher. That's all. Hell, I learn about baseball just by watching...
...those American Roman Catholics who have looked toward Evanston as an opportunity to increase understanding and good will between the various branches of Christendom, Cardinal Stritch's letter will have almost as shattering an effect as Leo XIII's letter on the blight of 'Americanism' had on liberal tendencies in American Roman Catholic circles in the 1890s . . . Dramatic emphasis will be given to the fact that there is a great gulf fixed between the papal church and all other churches. And the world will be told that this gulf yawns wide and deep because...
...master. For one collector, the wish has come true. In Johannesburg, Businessman (tire-recapping) Maurice Hirsch poked around at a local auction sale and bought for $375 a painting he thought "looked good." Local collectors were doubtful, but Hirsch sent detail photographs of the painting to Belgian Historian Leo van Puyvelde. The verdict: Van Puyvelde had examined that very painting before in 1937. It is, he wrote, L'Erection de la Croix, a "genuine work by Anthony Van Dyck, where the creative power of the painter expresses itself masterfully." Estimated value...