Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even without the help of these new stars the 1959 season would be one to remember. In both leagues the old champions were in trouble, and upstarts, emerging from their long shadow, were elbowing one another for a place...
...Gordon, the old Yankee second baseman, who had helped Cleveland win the world championship in 1948. Gordon has his high-spirited Indians playing a confident, aggressive brand of ball that is packing the fans into Cleveland Stadium* after years of declining attendance since the 1954 pennant. Backed by a long-ball attack, this whirlwind play has so far made up for mediocre pitching. (FastBaller Herb Score has never recovered his coordination since being hit in the eye with a batted ball in 1957, has a 9-10 record.) "I just turn them loose on the field and let them play...
...Crotona Park, and major-league scouts were nosing about. Rocky quit high school ("baseball was the only thing I really cared about") and waited to be courted. Yankee Stadium was just a couple of miles away, and Colavito idolized Joe DiMaggio. But the Yankee scouts fretted so long about his slow running (he has inverted arches) that Cleveland got him for a cut-rate $3,000 bonus...
...Strike-out or home run, Rocky Colavito earns his $30,000 by playing with a flair that stirs delight up in the stands. After one of his flat-trajectory throws from rightfield, the "ooh!" lingers for drawn-out seconds. And when Rocky hits the long one and starts his languorous lope around the bases ("Rocky runs around after hitting a homer like he was still tasting it," says a sportscaster), the cheers follow him into the dugout...
...would like to see story-high versions of his Tangibles in public parks and plazas, timed to go into action at long intervals, and with suitable musical accompaniment. The result would certainly startle the unwary passerby, and the fact that his Tangibles are wholly abstract may count against them in the eyes of most park commissioners. But Lye remains firmly wedded to abstraction. "These are for grace and power of motion," he explains, "not for imagery. They are not supposed to be like anything...