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If the first month of the 1971 baseball season is any indication of things to come, major league pitchers may soon have to start wearing catchers' masks for protection. Consider the events of one fairly typical evening last week. In St. Louis, Joe Torre of the Cardinals banged out...
Gay President. Washington. D.C. was "dazzling with pink cherry and magnolia blossoms, and deluged with tourists. One morning nearly 10,000 visitors queued up to tour the White House. Along the black iron White House fence 37 women, mainly suburban housewives, chained themselves in protest against the Viet Nam War...
Willie Mays, Baseball Player
* Hack Wilson, Hank Greenberg, Johnny Mize and Maris each did it once; Ralph Kiner, Jimmy Foxx, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle twice; and Ruth four times.
Mantle could also bunt a team to death, because he was that rarest of all ballplayers, a switch-hitting slugger who could outsprint every big man in the league and most of the little men. That combination, plus his aw-shucks, farm-boy manner, made Mighty Mick an instant folk...