Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eagerly up to offer Johnson their plump palms. The President shook hands with most of them, finally scooped up Cathy, collected a kiss for preventing the railroad strike. Then he went off to downtown Chicago, where Daley had arranged to deliver 6,000 paying guests to a $100-a-plate party dinner. After dinner there were fireworks outside, complete with displays of a Texas hat, an American flag, the initials "L.B.J." in orange flames, and exploding rockets that scared the daylights out of the Secret Service...
...Kansas City Athletics have trouble hitting a ball out of the infield, let alone over a fence. Owner Charles Finley's solution was to bring the mountain to Mohammed. He built a plywood fence in rightfield, only 296 ft. from home plate, christened the project his "Pennant Porch." Unh-unh, said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, so Finley moved the whole contraption back 29 ft. and renamed it a "One-Half Pennant Porch...
...first homer should never have happened. Just before he hit it, he had sent a ball up the elevator shaft on the first base side of the plate. Catcher Gary Miller waved his first baseman away and lost...
...final gift was granted in the eighth. With two out, Tom Bilodeau ended his errorless days by bobbling a sharp bouncer. The mistake became costly when Stephenson dropped another throw on the next play and then threw wildly to the plate...
...team's first line of strength lies in its batting. Left fielder Grey Peters leads the squad with an astronomical .714 average: for those who appreciate the complicated mathematics of "slugging" averages, his is a lofty 1.355. In 22 trips to the plate this season, he has reached base 21 times...