Word: moe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Various reasons for the lag are advanced -not enough outlets, weak promotion, bad odds (1,000,000 to 1 for top prize of $100,000), and the unexciting legality of the whole thing. Some gamblers feel that their pastime has to be more attuned to the raffish ways of Moe the Gyp than to the clean-cut operation of Nelson the Rock. The mystique has to do with smoky back rooms and the smell of the paddocks, with whispered hunches and looking bored while four aces burn a hole in your hand...
...perhaps a better indicator of what to expect. The Orioles' three World Series shutouts of the tired Dodgers were more miracle than norm for a staff that compiled only 22 complete games all year. Their relievers saved them last year, but Stu Miller is approaching 40, Moe Drabowsky's 7-0 record was preceded by a 48-81 and 4.19 ERA lifetime mark, and Dick Hall is gone. Luis Aparicio, Boog Powell, Frank Robinson. Russ Snyder, and Paul Blair batted an average of 25 points higher than their career marks accumulated over a total of 39 years...
Just One Hit. "Do you know any Polish jokes?" goes an old baseball line, and the answer is "Yes, Moe Drabowsky." Drabowsky was born in Ozanna, Poland, came to the U.S. when he was three, attended Trinity College in Connecticut, and collected a $75,000 bonus for signing with the Chicago Cubs. So far, so good. But he has since bounced around nine teams, and until this season, when he compiled a 6-0 record in relief for the Orioles, his most noteworthy achievement was getting his name in the record book-for hitting four batters in one game...
...also the guy Manager Bauer called on to relieve Dave McNally in Los Angeles last week-with the Orioles leading, 4-1, in the first game of the series and the bases loaded with Dodgers. Moe walked the second man he faced, forcing in a run. "Oh, oh," he told himself, "just one base hit and I'm off to the showers." Drabowsky gave the Dodgers exactly that-one base hit, in 6⅔ innings. He tied a 47-year-old World Series record by striking out six Dodgers in a row, set another mark by whiffing a total...
...Moe Drabowsky took over from Balti-more starter Dave McNally in the third inning yesterday and pitched the Birds to a 5-2 first game victory over Los Angeles...