Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cards ended it quickly in the tenth. Bill White worked reliefer Pete Mikkelson for a walk; then slugger Ken Boyer laid down a bunt between the mound and first base, and beat it out easily as Mikkelson and Joe Pepitone stood inert and watched it roll. After the Yankees botched a pick-off play on White, McCarver hit his blast into the lower right field stands...
...Mound. Later, she became a nightclub chorine in Manhattan and was briefly married to an aging ex-furrier. She tried TV commercials and was the sweet young pause that refreshes for Coca-Cola. Those were the days of live commercials and live dramas, all on the same set. "I looked at the actors," says Carroll, "and thought, 'Well, gee, I don't know what the big deal is. Learning how to do magic must be harder than learning...
Then there were Bauer's Rules of Play-no cute stuff, no tricks, just straightforward baseball. For pitchers: "When I come out to that mound, don't give me a lot of bull; just give me the ball." For outfielders: "Make damn sure you don't miss that cutoff man with your throw." For base runners: "Break up the double play. Go in hard. Make it hurt." Labor-management relations would remain cordial, he said, just so long as the employees remembered their place: "If I'm out somewhere and a player comes...
Batters better swing high, wide and fan some when Fidel Castro, 37, steps up to the mound to give a demonstration of his celebrated pitching prowess. Since he won the revolution, he has not lost a game. But now it appears that Fidel's new soothing syrup is for domestic consumption as well as export. Radio Havana breathlessly reported that a recent beisbol game ended 3-0 after five innings with el máxima lider the losing hurler, though naturally he was "in magnificent form." Why five innings? Well, when Castro walks off the field, it seems that...
...find some way of getting Tony out. Nothing yet has worked -not even the ultimate weapon. Pitchers call it the "brushback"; batters call it a beanball. It is the highest compliment a pitcher can pay a hitter, and Oliva has been getting a lot of fan mail from the mound. He has eaten dirt at least a dozen times this spring. Things have reached such a stage, in fact, that Twins Manager Sam Mele has ordered retaliatory measures. "Anybody knocks Tony down, he gets knocked down himself," he tells Twins pitchers...