Word: mazeroski
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Crandall, Milwaukee (.280) 1b. Stan Musial, St. Louis (.351) 2b. Bill Mazeroski, Pittsburgh (.278) 3b. Frank Thomas. Pittsburgh (.296) ss. Ernie Banks, Chicago (.302) If. Bob Skinner, Pittsburgh (.324) cf. Willie Mays, San Francisco (.373) rf. Hank Aaron, Milwaukee...
Almost by himself, Bill Mazeroski last week atoned for the Pirates' losing the first half of a doubleheader with Milwaukee, 7-4. Bill broke up the second game with his batting. He hit two doubles, two singles, scored three runs and batted in two, beat Milwaukee...
...Hands. The Mazeroski magic with glove and ball has the whole league beguiled. Even "No Hands" Mazeroski himself can produce no practical explanation of his liquid legerdemain at second. "I don't really consciously even throw to first base," said he. "I just throw. I guess after you've done it a few times you just naturally know where first base...
Best Bargain. Like many another big-league ballplayer-Bob Feller, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays-Bill Mazeroski benefits from an asset even more valuable than his own hard-muscled (5 ft. 11½ in., 185 lbs.) frame: the ambitions of a baseball-frustrated father. Lewis Mazeroski, whose own baseball hopes ended when a coal-mining accident forced the amputation of part of his right foot, began playing catch with his son in the stony backyards of Ohio coal towns just as soon as young Bill could walk...
...this era of $100,000 bonuses for hot-shot high school kids who often end up in the bushes, the $4,000 paid to Bill Mazeroski for signing his contract seems more and more the best bargain Branch Rickey ever made. "Pound for dollar," says Pittsburgh Baseball Announcer Bob Prince in the lingo of the press box, "Mazeroski is far and away the most valuable chattel in the Pirate empire...