Word: mccovey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carl Yastrzemski 14)The Pittsburgh Pirates 15)Tony Oliva 16)Harvey Kuenn, Richie Allen and Tony Oliva 17)George Scott 18)Ted Williams 19)George Scott and Larry Hisle 20)Gil McDougald 21)Luis Aparicio 22)The San Francisco Giants with Orlando Cepeda in 1958 and Willie McCovey in 1959 23)Tom Seaver 24)Willie Mays 25)Larry Raines...
...Then the Giants fought back, winning a one-run game with a home run from Second Baseman Bill Madlock, a Dodger nemesis (he has a .342 career average against Los Angeles). The fourth game went into extra innings. The Giants stayed alive on a hit by aging Superstar Willie McCovey, indestructible and still explosive at 40, and carried to victory and a renewed fingernail grip on first place by a brand new hero, 22-year-old Born-Again Christian Rightfielder Jack Clark. Said Clark, after singling home the winning run in the eleventh inning: "This was to prove...
...Casey Stengel, Willie McCovey, Mack Jones...
...There is nothing in sport like the head-to-head combat between pitcher and batter," he says. Nonetheless, if Marshall had his way, he would not be in baseball at all. "I wish I could get the great hitters of today-Joe Torre, Willie McCovey, Hank Aaron-to drop by Michigan State so I could pitch against them on weekends," says Marshall. That way he could concentrate on his first love: education. While learning how to pitch in the minor leagues, Marshall managed to complete the requirements for a master's degree in physical education at Michigan State...
...this kind of play that makes baseball the game it is, love it or leave it. The fabulous "if only's which pepper baseball lore have seen another swell their ranks. Aparicio's trip will go down with Richardson's catch of McCovey's drive in 1962, with Ralph Terry's Meatball to Mazeroski in 1960, even with the Bobby Thompson shot heard round the world...