Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twins' major problems may be on the mound. Comilo Pascual (20-11) and Jim Kaat (18-14) should be big winners again this season. The only question is whether they can succeed in tense situations. Jack Kralick (12-11) must be more reliable this year for the Twins to move, because behind him there isn't much worth talking about...
...Bunning (19-10), ERA champ Hank Aguirre (16-8), and Don Mossi (11-13) are more than adequate material to build a mound corps around, but unless Frank Lary (2-6) can regain his touch, the Tigers will have considerable difficulty battling the Twins and Angels...
...picture at Baltimore is brighter, although a lot of the glitter so far has been in press releases. Steve Barber (9-6) is out of the Army, and he, Chuck Estrada (9-17), and Milt Pappas (12-10) are a youthful, effective mound aggregation. Robin Roberts (10-9) might have one more year, and that could be important...
Shechem was one of the great cities of its area in ancient times; its 4000 years of history now lie buried in a ten-acre mound, or "tell," just east of Nablus in Jordan. When it flourished during ancient Egyptian and Biblical times, it occupied a strategie position at the eastern opening of the pass between Mt. Ebal and Mt. Gerasim. At the edge of the site is the modern village of Balatah, whose beautiful spring and nearby Jacob's Well once supplied Shechem with water...
Died. Bobo Newsom, 55, showboating South Carolina-born major-league pitcher for 24 years, whose roundhouse skill on the mound (211 victories for nine different clubs) was matched only by his foghorn braggadocio; of intestinal hemorrhage; in Orlando, Fla. Born Louis Norman Newsom, he always referred to himself and everyone else as "Bobo,'' drove around in a custom-built car with a two-tone bobo horn and his name in gold leaf a foot high on the dashboard. He was magnetic to baseballs, at various times broke his thumb, his kneecap, his leg. Pitching against the Yankees...