Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after sending the first presidential message on natural beauty to Congress, Johnson told his Cabinet that they could fall asleep on page five of his balance of payments message, "but here is one you have to read. I take special pride in this one. If you will all pitch in and help my wife and Secretary Udall and others, we might do something we will all be proud...
Sandy Koufax had not won a game since Aug. 14, and for a while, as he labored against the Chicago Cubs last week, the 29,139 fans in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium wondered whether baseball's top pitcher (record: 21-7) still had his stuff. His first pitch hit the dirt three feet in front of home plate, and for two full innings he threw nothing but curve balls-struggling to loosen the cramped muscles of his arthritic pitching arm. Finally, he tried a tentative fast ball, then a second and a third-and the crowd began...
...whether it might not have been preferable for him to accede to Papandreou's original demands for elections six weeks ago. In the interim, angry demonstrators, egged on by Papandreou's attacks on the "palace slaves," have whipped latent public distrust of the monarchy to a fever pitch. An election held now would probably not only return Papandreou to office, but be interpreted as a plebiscite on the monarchy as well...
...mitt with their bats and get to first base on interference. The Dodgers' Maury Wills succeeded; the Giants' Matty Alou failed. Pitchers from both clubs traded beanballs. Marichal low-bridged Wills and Ron Fairly. So Koufax took dead aim at Willie Mays. High with the pitch, Koufax hit the backstop instead, growled: "That was a lousy pitch. I meant it to come a lot closer...
...quite accurate to say that Ross Sobel has been playing pro golf for 49 years without ever winning a tournament. In 1922, he beat Willie MacFarlane for a new suit of clothes in the John David Invitational-a pitch-and-putt tournament that was played in midtown Manhattan on the cutting floor of a men's clothing store. "It wasn't as easy as it sounds," says Sobel. "The greens were trapped with buckets of sand and water, and I had to shoot a 40-ft. hole...