Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rightfielder answered to Arturo. A guy named Doc was behind the plate. The cleanup batter called himself Hector, and his claim to fame was that he once led the league in grounding into double plays. The whole squad was hitting .212. The program said they were the New York Yankees, winners of five straight American League pennants and 2-1 favorites to make it six in a row. Baltimore Coach Billy Hunter knew better; after all, he used to play shortstop for New York. "Yankees?" snorted Hunter. "They look like the Toledo Mud Hens...
...Elis' main problem this season has been inconsistent hitting, but they do have a few players who are dangerous at the plate. The best of the bunch is diminutive first sacker Bob Bartlett, who hit .357 last season and has been batting almost as torridly this year. Infielder Robin Cody has a .429 batting average in EIBL competition, and Jed Devine's average is also near the .300 level...
...DeBolt flew out to lead off the bottom of the tenth inning. Army's Gene Atkinson then blasted a triple to right field and Bob Fazen lofted a foul behind first base. Harvard's Joe O'Donnell, running hard, took the ball with his back to the plate and hesitated as Atkinson broke for home. O'Donnell's throw bounded in front of Crimson catcher Gary Miller and Atkinson scored...
...military men and USIS representatives. Frequently information provided has been found to be shaded. Often it is incomplete. Sometimes, although not as often as critics allege, it is deliberately misleading. This is an exasperating but thoroughly predictable practice. I think a reporter should expect the Government to gold-plate what it tells him, and assume it is his job to do what he can to temper it. The practical solution would seem to be to attend the briefings, regard them as a reportorial starting point, then go out and crosscheck. Certainly, that is the way the best correspondents in Viet...
...teach. Nearly 15% of Detroit University's business faculty are returnees from business. Chairman John Barr will soon leave Montgomery Ward to become dean of Northwestern's business school. A substantial number of executives now teach part time or temporarily. Former General Counsel Leland Hazard of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. gives a culture course at Carnegie Tech, and Ford Financial Vice President Theodore Yntema will lead seminars there this fall. Paul M. Mazur, a Lehman Bros. partner, is a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School...