Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning Cooper was back in his Faith 7 capsule. As he lay on his back, the ten-story-high launch assembly swayed gently. The thin skin of the Atlas popped and clinked with expansion and contraction. Vapor whistled with pitch-pipe tones through the liquid oxygen release valve. Gyros purred-and, to the astonishment of control-center monitors, Cooper's respiration rate dropped to twelve per minute. Astronaut Cooper apparently was taking a catnap...
Easy to Hit? With or without gravy, Warren Spahn has been a 20-game winner in twelve of his 17 seasons in the majors. How does he do it? "For years, I've sat on the bench, waiting to bat, watching Spahn pitch," says the New York Mets' Gil Hodges. " 'He hasn't got a thing on the ball,' I tell myself. 'I can hit him easy.' Then I get up there and-well, you know the rest...
Actually, as pitchers' repertories go, Spahn's is fairly extensive. He has four basic pitches: a fast ball that sails upward as it nears the plate; a curve that breaks to his right; a screwball that breaks left; and a slider-a modified fast ball that veers slightly inside to a right-handed batter. Every pitch starts with precisely the same motion: a long, slow rock-back, a high fluid kick, and a flurry of arms and legs that "makes the ball look as though it is coming right out of my uniform." And then there...
...three games away from first, and in both cases the cause is clear: a demonstrated lack of starting pitchers. It has been the reliefers on both clubs. Bill Fischer of the A's, and Dick Radatz of Boston, who have been saving the wins. But Fischer and Radatz cannot pitch every night, and neither team shows signs of developing a top-notch starter...
...business or the Army instead of baseball) and a daughter-in-law who is expecting a baby in August. But Stan the Man is not quite ready for the rocking chair. Under the lights in St. Louis last week, Musial abruptly uncoiled from his corkscrew stance, stepped into a pitch thrown by the Dodgers' Bob Miller, and cracked it into the Busch Stadium bleachers. I was his 465th home run, and together with 717 doubles and 175 triples, it gave him a lifetime total of 1,357 extra-base hits_breaking Babe Ruth's alltime record. After...