Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youthful chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, but there was even more in store. Suddenly he found himself eyeball to eyeball with Florida's Republican Governor. Claude R. Kirk Jr., who had walked into the ballpark and up to the speaker's area at home plate...
...want to get involved. In a jewel robbery, the "thieves" ran from the store with their loot in plain view, carrying an injured man whom they threw in the trunk of the getaway car. Again, no one made a move to interfere and no one noted the license plate. Just as impassively, onlookers looked on as a pair of "robbers" smashed a store window and started looting. Only one man, a 35-year-old civil servant, lunged forward to tackle one of the looters. No one else moved...
Then, a rally. Boston cut the Angels' lead to 5-4, had men on first and third with two out, and up stepped young Mike Andrews to the plate. On his previous at-bat, Andrews had missed a home run by a matter of feet when he belted one out of the park, barely foul. So here was the Kid's chance to try to put one into Kenmore Square, be a super-hero, and get half a dozen stories in the next morning's Boston Globe about his wife, his children, his dog, his first grade teacher, his parents...
...game was not yet won, however. Carl Yastrzemski in the top of the tenth saved the tie with a leaping catch off the left field wall of Moose Skowron's line drive. He then ended the inning (see picture) by throwing our at the plate Don Mincher, who was trying to score from second on a single. Yastrzemski threw out the California first baseman, who had given the Angels their early lead with a three-run homer, by a margin so wide that the runner didn't slide...
...Roberto Clemente, eight-year batting average, .328, wrote his name into the All-Star record book (as they say) by whiffing four times in a row. And St. Louis' Orlando Cepeda, the No. 1 hitter (at .356) in the National League, went 0-for-six at the plate-running his lifetime All-Star record...