Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven sons. Lary comes from a pitching family; six of the Lary boys were pitchers in high school, college or professional ball; the seventh caught all the brothers. Lary's father, a cotton farmer in Alabama's red-clay country, set up a pitcher's mound and a plate in the front yard, made all his sons practice after their chores. After two years at the University of Alabama. Lary quit college to sign a contract with the Tigers, joined Detroit in 1955. won 14 games in his rookie year. The next season. Lary was foundering with...
...combination of players too young to be good and too old for ambition, has won only 34 games, a meager victory assortment widely diffused by 88 defeats. In a fruitless effort to break the losing habit, Manager Mauch has shifted his players into unfamiliar positions, paraded pitchers to the mound, used as many as 17 players a game, and even tried applied psychology. "Do what you want to," he ordered his men one night after a humiliating defeat. "There's no curfew tonight...
...where he began his baseball career as a grammar-school nine-year-old. One day in 1958, while he was playing third base for the Brentwood Cardinals, a suburban St. Louis amateur team, the starting pitcher broke his leg, and the manager sent twelve-year-old Mike to the mound. Jones walked the first batter, struck out the next 18, won the game-and became the team's No. I pitcher. Over the next three seasons, he ran up such an impressive record that he attracted major-league scouts, among them a scout from the St. Louis Cardinals...
...record. To steady his young pitchers, Hutchinson relied on 31-year-old Bob Purkey, whose assortment of knucklers and sinkers earned him an 11-4 record. In the bullpen, he called on Bill Henry and bespectacled Writer Jim (The Long Season) Brosnan, who also uses brains on the mound, to save a total of 19 games...
...turned the contest in San Francisco's Candlestick Park into a Little League affair-there were a record seven errors, a passed ball and a balk-and went ahead 4-3 in the tenth on an unearned run. But when Baltimore's Hoyt Wilhelm went to the mound, four Negro batsmen pushed across two runs to win the game before anybody was out. Milwaukee's Hank Aaron lashed a pinch single to center. Mays doubled him home. After Wil helm hit Cincinnati's Frank Robinson with a pitch. Clemente lined a sharp single to right...