Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roger Maris has hit 59 or 61 home runs depending on how you look at it; Warren Spahn has tossed a no-hitter, won his 300th game, and chalked up 20 victories for the umpteenth season; and most incredible of all, the Cincinnati Reds have won the National League pennant...
...champs, and a real blood and guts ball team at that. The New York Yankees especially should take Cincinnati seriously--although it will do them little good. For the Yankees are about to get bumped off in six games in the World Series by one of the most unobtrusive pennant winners of all time...
...baseball player who ever lived. As a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, he won 46 games in two seasons, pitched 29 consecutive scoreless World Series innings-a record that still stands. As an outfielder, he joined a Yankee club that had no ballpark and had never won a pennant; his presence (backed up by the formidable figure of Lou Gehrig) turned the New Yorkers into the most fearsome team in baseball. To a sport that had been damaged by the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, Babe Ruth's booming bat brought new virility and respectability. Even when...
...which days Maris would hit a homer, how many he would hit. Nightly newscasts in Israel included Maris' personal box score for the day, and papers in baseball-happy Japan begged U.S. wire services for interviews with the Yankee slugger. Even when the Yankees made their 26th pennant mathematically certain last week, the news ran second to Maris' 59th homer...
...grind, it was neither classy fielding, nor reliable pitching, nor booming home runs that assured the Yanks the pennant. Their secret was depth. Manipulating his players with military precision, Rookie Manager Ralph ("The Major") Houk demonstrated an uncanny ability to find the right man for the job. And whatever the job, the right man usually was a catcher-one of a remarkable Yankee trio whose versatility, both at bat and in the field, is unmatched in baseball history. In a season when both major leagues can boast fewer than half a dozen topflight catchers, the three best belong...