Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curves. Ten years ago, when he saw that even his curves and control were not enough, Spahn started to perfect a screwball and a slider with the patience of a hothouse gardener growing prize orchids. Says the Cardinals' Stan Musial: "The tough pitcher is the one with a pitch that breaks in and another that breaks out, and Spahn has them for either right or lefthanded batters...
...strong sense, the finish of the 1,500-meter race dramatized the central point of the 1960 games: win or lose, never before had so many athletes from so many nations achieved such a high pitch of competitive accomplishment. Among the top events of the Olympics' final week...
Performing with the enthusiasm of oldtime, touring vaudevillians, they swung across the state-Houston. Dallas, Wichita Falls, El Paso, Odessa-unwilted by 100° heat, shook as many as 2,500 hands a day, made their pitch at morning "coffees," afternoon teas and press conferences. Lady Bird explained Lyndon with wifely conviction: "Lyndon is the same man as before. He has never been embraced by extreme liberals or extreme conservatives." Ethel got an admiring gasp when she was introduced as the mother of seven children. Eunice drew sober attention with a summary of her brother's war record...
...fever pitch, the crowd plunged through Teheran's vaulted bazaar, making its way past brilliant stacks of rugs, past squatting tinsmiths and hanging ranks of newly slain lambs and, at last, down a labyrinthine alley to the home of Ayatollah Mohammed Behbehani, Teheran's most powerful religious leader. In Ayatollah Mohammed's great walled garden, a white-turbaned mullah shouted over a microphone: "All elections must be canceled!" The crowd roared back: "We agree! We agree!'' White-robed and heavily bearded, bent by his 90 years, Ayatollah Mohammed shuffled slowly across the garden...
When the game began, Levittown Pitch-Joey Marmello, a husky twelve-year-old (5 ft. 2 in., 117 Ibs.). proceeded to put on one of the greatest shows in Little League history. At bat. he hit a 225-ft. home run over the centerfield fence to drive in two runs. On the mound, he cut loose a big league fastball. By the end of the six-inning game. Joey had pitched a no-hitter, struck out 16 men and won the championship 5-0. Son of a former St. Louis Browns' farm hand, Joey has fanned...