Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lasted a record 4 hr. 18 min., and the weary combatants used a record 42 players. Eleven runs scored in one inning, and there was a grand total of 20 hits, three errors and 20 men left on base. Then, in the ninth, the winning run dribbled across the plate, without benefit of a hit. On first with nobody out. Dodger Speedster Maury Wills upset a series of Giant pitchers to such an extent that they walked one batter, threw to the wrong base on another, and pushed Wills around to third, where he could skip home on a sacrifice...
...Willie Mays both "safe" and "out" on the same play (he meant "out"), later pleaded amnesia: "I don't remember doing any such thing." Shrugged Mays: "I guess I was out." One thing Conlan didn't forget: to face the TV cameras when he dusted off home plate-just in case his pants split...
THIRD BASE--Jim Davenport holds the fort for San Francisco here, and does well at it, both in the field and at the plate (.300). But he doesn't do quite as well as Clete Boyer...
...will introduce myself,'' the President told some 7,000 Democrats at a $100-a-plate dinner. "I am Teddy Kennedy's brother." There was no pretense about this being a "nonpolitical" presidential trip, and Kennedy struck out at Republicans in a fashion reminiscent of 1960. Said he: "If the Republican Party is charged with wanting to return to the past, with opposing nearly every constructive measure we have put forward, then they must plead guilty...
...faith healer, as loyal TV watchers know, is likely to be a hot-eyed spellbinder, his eye cocked to the collection plate and his theology about as solidly grounded as his gospel tent. But in Philadelphia a fortnight ago, the suffering who came forward to be healed-a retarded girl of about six, an old man with an ugly facial growth-received a blessing as dignified as the setting: 139-year-old St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. "This is no hocus-pocus," said St. Stephen's Rector Alfred Price from the pulpit. "This is a sacrament...