Word: mauchly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian was one of history's great athletes, excelling at football, pentathlon, decathlon, golf, bowling, hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle, squash, handball and horsemanship. So when he died in 1953, the Pennsylvania coal town of Mauch Chunk (pop. 5.945), not far from Carlisle, where he went to college, welcomed his corpse with a $10,500 mausoleum, and renamed itself Jim Thorpe, Pa., in his honor. The town fathers figured he would be a great tourist draw. But disillusionment has set in, and John H. Otto, chairman of the County Water and Sewer Authority, is now leading a campaign to change...
...happen in the spring. But the 1964 Phillies are no fluke. Unlike the fence-busting Giants (10 home runs), the Phillies get their runs in sprinkles on singles, rely on sound defense, tight pitching, plus the old-fashioned virtue of team spirit. The urge to win, says Manager Gene Mauch, is "like a big infection," and last week the Phils were breaking out all over. They shut out Pittsburgh 2-0, dropped a protested game to the Pirates, 6-5, and bounced back to edge the Houston Colts, 7-6. By week's end the suspicion was beginning...
...Suicide. Historians smile at the thought. In 81 years, the Phils have won only two pennants (in 1915 and 1950), and Mauch may be the only manager in history who took a demotion from the minors to the major leagues. A tense, cold-eyed baseball strategist who took the Minneapolis Millers to two straight Junior World Series, he got the Philadelphia job in 1960 when Eddie Sawyer quit after the first game, explaining, "I'm 49 years old and I want to live to be 50." The Phils welcomed their new manager the way they knew best: by finishing...
...mollycoddler, Manager Mauch always has a train ticket ready for a slacker. Starting pitchers know that it is no use arguing when he wants a replacement from the bullpen. He simply marches to the mound and holds out his hand for the ball. His hair-trigger temper is legendary; he has been suspended three times for jawing with umpires, and wise players stay out of his way on a losing afternoon. One day last year, infuriated by a narrow loss to Houston, he stalked into the clubhouse, found the Phillies feasting gaily on a buffet of barbecued spareribs-and flipped...
...Somewhat less secure than Mauch was General Manager Frank Lane of the American League's cellar-dwelling Kansas City Athletics who was fired last week without notice by Owner Charles O. Finley...