Word: mudcat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maury & Mudcat. There were no instant heroes. The Series belonged to the pros, the ballplayers who put their teams there in the first place-and they professed elaborate calm. "I just had an average day," shrugged Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills after the fifth game, in which he stole a base, scored two runs, and rapped out four hits to tie a Series record. "I'm still no Maury Wills " insisted Centerfielder Willie Davis, who stole three bases in one game. "I had a hell of a good time," said Rightfielder Ron Fairly, only...
...Dodgers against anyone else. I'll tell you one thing: Sandy Koufax is the greatest pitcher." After that, he lost me; he babbled on, and I just nodded my head. I finally dragged him off baseball, but we continued to watch the Series, and when Mudcat Grant hit a homer, Nixon almost chased the ball into the stands...
What's to See? Several, as it turned out. If the Dodgers expected the Twins' pitchers to panic over their cap-gun offense, they learned otherwise when Jim ("Mudcat") Grant shrugged that he had not even bothered to look at scouting reports on the Los Angeles lineup. "Their leading hitter is batting about .288," explained Grant, "so there isn't much to look over, is there...
...field a bunt, and by the time the Twins got bored, eleven men had batted and six had scored-three of them on Zoilo Versalles' 400-ft. homer into the leftfield bleachers. "I had bad command," Drysdale said afterward. But so, for that matter, did the Twins' Mudcat Grant. Each team collected ten hits; the difference was that Los Angeles left nine men on the bases. Final score...
Never on Holidays. By contrast, their World Series opponents, the American League's Minnesota Twins, boast only one pitcher who has even won 20 games, Jim ("Mudcat") Grant-and his earned-run average is a so-so 3.22. The Twins do have plenty of power: Harmon Killebrew has hit 24 homers, Bob Allison has 23, and Tony Oliva, the American League batting champion (at .321) has 16. What's more, because of a quirk in the schedule, the Twins won't have to face Sandy Koufax in the opening game of the Series...