Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked in the fourth inning, was thrown out trying to steal second. With the Dodgers leading 3-0 and two out in the bottom of the ninth, Sandy faced Phillies Shortstop Bobby Wine. The first pitch was a ball, and Wine fouled the second off the leg of Plate Umpire Ed Vargo. Wincing with pain, Vargo called time out-and the tension mounted. "Play ball!" he finally called. Wine whiffed at a second strike. Then, Sandy wound up, kicked his right leg high into the air-and burned a fastball straight across the heart of the plate. Koufax walked...
...learn how to field from the first grade up, but he batted .350 at Charlotte in 1962, .304 at Dallas-Fort Worth in 1963, .365 in the Puerto Rican League last winter, won a starting berth with the Twins this spring. In his first 100 trips to the plate, he collected 43 hits, and his average has not dropped below .380 since. Last week Oliva was leading the American League in batting (.389), runs (41), hits (77), doubles (12) and triples (5), and ranked sixth in home runs (with...
Beyond Duty. Proving that his devotion to party extends far beyond any sense of mere duty, Johnson sat through the show again two nights later with 16,000 Democrats in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. He also attended $1,000-a-plate dinners at Washington's International Inn and Manhattan's New York Hilton, a $100-a-plate dinner in Manhattan's Americana Hotel. The five affairs stuffed the party's 1964 campaign wallet with some $2.5 million...
...some of the record companies still seem to be listening to the dark message of their social scientists. They are still on the prowl for another salable demonstration of the death wish, and the latest candidate is skateboarding. A skateboard is a surfboard scarcely larger than a steak plate, mounted on roller-skate wheels, and a skateboarder is anyone daring enough to careen over the concrete while aboard one. David Kapralik, a music publisher for Columbia Records, has high hopes for the fad. "It's another thing that reflects the adolescent's self-destructive tendencies," he says eagerly...
...hits, including 17 singles, three doubles, two triples and a home run. Charlie Smith, who had driven in only five runs all year, drove in five that afternoon. Dick Smith, who had 13 hits to show for the whole season, got five in six trips to the plate. The Cubs, naturally, were in a state of complete shock. The catcher and first baseman collided chasing a foul ball. The rightfielder let a routine fly slip through his hands. One Met run scored on a passed ball, and another crossed the plate on a balk. Final score: Mets 19, Chicago...