Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fans shoehorned into Washington's brand-new stadium for last week's All-Star game could be pardoned for wondering who was on third; the Minnesota Twins' Rich Rollins was not even a big-league regular this time last year. But when American League players, managers and coaches cast their All-Star ballots for the 1962 games, they not only elected Third Baseman Rollins to the team, but they also gave the 24-year-old third baseman more votes (184 out of a possible 280) than any other player in the league, including Mantle and Maris...
...American League in hits (108), ranks fourth in batting (.315), fourth in R.B.I.s (59). and his hot bat is the main reason why the Twins, seventh-place finishers last season, are basking in the American League's first division. "Even when the team is doing everything wrong," says Minnesota Manager Sam Mele, "Rich does everything right. He hits with one on, he hits with two on, and he hits with none on. With seven more like him, we might never lose a game...
...Chamber of Commerce and left-leaning Americans for Democratic Action seldom agree on anything-but they were together for a tax cut. On Capitol Hill, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, fighting for an immediate slash, was joined by two Republican colleagues, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper and New Jersey's Clifford Case. At the conference of state Governors in Hershey, Pa., New York's Nelson Rockefeller, California's Pat Brown and Ohio's Michael Di Salle-all running for re-election this fall-added their voices to the chorus. Within the Administration...
Jackie Gleason, the massive Minnesota Fats in The Hustler, once observed that poolrooms have a "dirty antiseptic look-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The Brunswick Corp. of Chicago, largest commercial U.S. billiard equipment manufacturer, is determined to change all that, has produced some innovations aimed straight at Mom; e.g., tables have been contoured along Detroit lines with chrome doodads and two-tone coachwork. But the feature that will bring the loudest howls from Gleason and other reactionary cue sticklers is the new look of the table...
...home-run barrage goes on. On a Sunday, which for the first time saw a schedule of ten doubleheaders, big-league batters banged out a record 54 homers, four more than the previous one-day high of 50 in 16 games on May 30, 1956. Led by the Minnesota Twins with six homers. American League teams hit 30 balls into the stands or over the fence. In the National League, Cincinnati and Philadelphia swung the biggest bats, with four home runs each...