Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian-Mound Garage. Big Sur is challenging country. The land is periodically shaken by earthquakes, battered by 80-m.p.h. winds; rainfall can total 72 in. in three months, and termites abound. To cope with these problems, Owings designed a kind of concrete saddle over the ridge, anchored by eight caissons reaching down into bedrock. On this he secured a rigid A-frame, surrounded it with cantilevered balconies carried around the outside to exploit the spectacular view. For roof beams he bought 60-year-old redwood timbers of a demolished bridge. A four-car garage was dug partially out of bedrock...
...custom of the relief pitcher's craft, he should have emerged from the bullpen with stoic mien and plodded his way to the mound like a tired Atlas about to shoulder the weight of the world. But it seemed that whenever the Chicago White Sox managed to mount an attack against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, the tall, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 202 Ibs.) righthanded rookie sallied out of the Dodger bullpen with a spring in his step and a grin on his face. Confessed unabashed Larry Sherry, 24: "I just plain like to pitch...
Most important of all, the Dodgers found they could stop the White Sox cold whenever they pleased merely by calling in Larry Sherry to have some fun on the mound. Admits Chicago Manager Al Lopez: "Sherry was the difference...
...were straggling back from the plate with their bats dragging. By the middle innings, the crowd of 82,794 at Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum was beginning to realize that the husky (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) Dodger southpaw might be heading for a record. Out on the mound, Sandy Koufax, 23, wiped away sweat and bore grimly down with each pitch, firing a fast ball that hopped as though magnetized, a crackling curve that dipped down...
...Strike Three!" The Castro adulation grew. Appearing one night to accept a gift machete and to toss an inning of exhibition baseball for an army team, Castro marched to the mound in high spirits. A onetime sub at the University of Havana, he unleashed a wild fast ball, got a friendly reading from the umpire. With the count at 3 and 2, Fidel whipped a high, hard one over the batter's head. "Strike three!" the umpire said...