Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stretch'd o'er the marshy vale the willowy mound...
...McKenzie of the Mound City Blue Blowers was the Benny Goodman of the kazoo and the Harry James of the musical comb, the man who made it a beautiful thing to be a comb player. The sound of McKenzie's melodic bzzz drifted off in the '30s, but his name is now revered in Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard students crowd into the Club 47 to hear the music of McKenzie's spiritual heirs: Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band. On washtub, kazoo, stovepipe, scrub board and comb, Kweskin's band plays old-fashioned "good time" music...
After three games, the Yankees had managed 16 base hits, just three runs. And then, there on the mound for the fourth game stood Koufax again. Mickey Mantle finally hit a fast ball into the bleachers. It was the only Yankee run. Sandy Koufax's teammates got him two runs-and that was all he needed to make the Los Angeles Dodgers the first team in history to sweep the Yankees four straight in the World Series...
When the Cards looked out to the mound next day, there stood Sandy Koufax, No. 1 in the National League in won-lost record (23-5), strikeouts (284) and practically everything else.* The Dodgers' regular rotation called for Koufax to work the last game, but that fell on Rosh Hashana, and Sandy refuses to pitch on Jewish holidays. Alston also started hulking (6 ft. 7 in., 250 Ibs.) Frank Howard despite the fact that Howard was 0-for-19 in St. Louis this season. So naturally Howard crashed a two-run homer, and Koufax needed only 87 pitches...
Then Cleveland Indian Pitcher Gary Bell grazed the middle of Yankee Joe Pepitone. Pepitone trotted down to first base, but a hot verbal exchange with Bell sent him running out to the mound, and the dugouts boiled over. The field jammed spectacularly, but like the American League race, it was all show and not much action. Push a bit, swing a bit, yell a bit and it was over: Bell was fined $50 for deliberately throwing at the batter, Pepitone was accused of incitement to riot and later fined $50, but the Yankees won as usual, and the runaway...