Word: pensacola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barber was pitching Class D ball down in Pensacola last year," says Richards. "Won seven and lost eleven. Temperamental kid. We told him if he could get hold of his temper he could make it with us, and he did. We knew Estrada had it. He won 14 and lost six at Vancouver last year. With all our kids, we develop a basic pitch they can get over when they have to with some stuff on it. Estrada's strike pitch is a fast ball that drops. Barber's is a slider. His fast ball moves around...
...took sure hands on the sun-baked courses of the Southwest, where the ball rolls forever if it is hit down the middle; and Palmer was on target often enough to win the Palm Springs Classic and the Texas Open. It called for a spectacular change of pace at Pensacola, where he came from behind on moist, slow Gulf Coast greens, banked on long, bold putts to rack up a seven-under-par 65 in the second round to take the tournament by a single stroke...