Word: mitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Married. Mitt Romney, 22, youngest son of the HUD Secretary and a sophomore at Brigham Young University; and Ann Davies, 19, daughter of a Detroit industrialist and a Mormon convert; in Salt Lake City...
...hours discussing baseball and his all-time favorite performers, among them Gil Hodges and Ted Williams. Friends report that McCarthy is not so much interested in the outcome of a contest as in the style of individual players. Even during his recent political campaign, he carried a mitt along and used his Secret Service men as a captive team. Now, fresh from two weeks on the French Riviera, the old slugger comes home to a logical assignment: covering the World Series for LIFE...
Colby's netkeeper put a hex on Cooney Weiland's youthful icemen Saturday night, and hold Harvard to a 4-4 stole-mate up in Waterville, Maine. Harvard pounded the stolid Maine goalie with 43 goalward slaps, jobs, and fakeroos in a scrambling contest. His damnable mitt kept appearing where most goalies are left vainly pawing with their sticks...
...Allison, a dangerous hitter. "He was the tying run," Koufax said later, "so no pitch I threw him got any more than an inch of the plate." The count went to two and two. Rearing back, Koufax threw. Allison swung. Pop! The ball slammed into Catcher Roseboro's mitt. In the locker room, world champions for the third time in seven years, richer by $10,000 per man, the Dodgers showered in champagne and gawked like schoolboys at Sandy Koufax, standing off to one side talking to reporters. "That Koufax," sighed Pitcher Johnny Podres, once a World Series hero...
Trouble had been brewing for days, as the Giants and Dodgers squared off in baseball's bitterest rivalry. Twice in two innings, batters practically fell across the plate in attempts to tick the catcher's mitt with their bats and get to first base on interference. The Dodgers' Maury Wills succeeded; the Giants' Matty Alou failed. Pitchers from both clubs traded beanballs. Marichal low-bridged Wills and Ron Fairly. So Koufax took dead aim at Willie Mays. High with the pitch, Koufax hit the backstop instead, growled: "That was a lousy pitch. I meant...