Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose career as a player back home in Fargo, N. Dak. was stopped by polio in 1951. With speed on the base paths and wall-climbing tenacity in the outfield to back up his hitting, Maris is the main reason the Athletics soared as high as third place last month...
...Francisco's Willie Lee McCovey, 21, a big, leggy (6 ft. 4 in., 200 Ibs.) Negro first baseman, was so excited last month when he was called up from Phoenix that he stayed up all night to make sure he made his plane, never did get around to packing all his clothes. But at the plate for San Francisco, Willie is as cool as his bat is hot: in his first seven games, he hit three home runs, scored nine runs, drove in nine more, and batted .467, as the Giants won six to stay in first place...
...steel-blue eyes are as sharp as ever, his gimpy knee is responding to cortisone treatments, and his average is up to .323. At 35, ham-handed Gil Hodges had hit 19 homers and driven in 62 runs when he was forced out of the line-up last month with a wrenched ankle. But Hodges is expected back in time to help the Dodgers as the three-way pennant fight swirls to a finish...
Rocky was only 17 in 1951 when he started riding the buses with Daytona Beach in the Class D Florida State League. After that the road led only upward: Spartanburg (11 homers), Reading (28), two years in Indianapolis (38, 30). In 1956, after a one-month stint with San Diego, Rocky made the Indians for good, as a rookie hit a respectable .276, knocked out 21 home runs...
...last week's reorganization, the complement was cut from 133 to 100, and the Vatican introduced some morale-boosting changes. Pay will be raised from an average $70 a month to about $112. Some noncoms, as well as officers, may now marry, and officers' wives need no longer bring a dowry of 50,000 lire ($80). One surprising innovation: guards may now act as guides in their spare time, engage in other "cultural" activities, provided they are not "indecorous...