Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lefty whose feud with newsmen is so bitter that he issues statements only through Manager Bill Rigney (dubbed by the press "John's other voice"). To hit, the Giants have the bull-necked Cepeda and the wondrous McCovey. Out in centerfield, Willie Mays, 28, is beginning to make the awesome plays in Seals Stadium that he used to pull off in the Polo Grounds. Most important of all perhaps, the Giants have a grim determination to win. After a defeat, the team's locker room bristles with fury...
...with tuberculosis, Manager Fred Haney is finally getting some help from Bobby Avila, 33, the old Cleveland Indian, who knows what to do with the ball, even though he cannot go far to get it. Schoendienst may be back by September, but in the meantime Haney can more than make do with the men who won for him in 1957 and 1958: husky Third Baseman Ed Mathews is still hitting home runs (33), lean Rightfielder Hank Aaron is still leading the league with his bat (.367), and on the pitching staff 38-year-old Lefty Warren Spahn...
...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," says Gordon. "If a guy gets brave and decides to steal and gets thrown out, I don't make a fuss about it. I want my players to play the way they did when they were kids...
Harsh Discipline. The new rules should make it much easier to fill vacancies in the ranks. But each guardsman must still reckon with his tough C.O.: tall, ramrod-rigid Colonel Robert Nunlist, 48, onetime member of Switzerland's General Staff, who was appointed commander in 1957. Nunlist felt that discipline had deteriorated during the long illness of the previous commander, set out to whip the troop into shape. His soldiers are kept taut with tongue-lashings, stern punishments for minor infractions. Nunlist's strictness nearly cost him his life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot...
...boys had their father's name going for them, and they had a faint but familiar facsimile of their old man's talent. They also had a fierce urge to prove that they could make it on their own. So Bing Crosby's four sons-Gary, 26, twins Dennis and Phil, 25, and Lindsay, 21-put together a family-style act of songs and smart-aleck chatter and started right at the top of the nightclub circuit. The Crosby boys blew into Las Vegas' Sahara nightclub last month, after three successful weeks at Chicago...