Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lean & Powerful. At week's end, with a month left to play, Banks was hitting a lively .313 and leading the majors with 42 home runs and the league with no runs batted in.* Far behind were such famed sluggers as the Giants' Willie Mays (23 homers) and the Yankees' Mickey Mantle (83 runs batted in). Banks seemed a sure bet to become the eighth player-and the first shortstop-ever to hit more than 50 homers in a single season. Moreover, Cub fans with a faith in miracles hopefully noted that Banks was just three games...
Born in Dallas, Ernie Banks was a star in high school basketball and football, high-jumped 5 ft. 11 in., ran a quarter-mile in 51 sec. and never played baseball. "My dad, he bought me a glove for $2.98, and he used to bribe me with nickels and dimes to play catch," he recalls. In 1950, a Negro league scout spotted him playing softball, and he became a barnstormer with the Kansas City Monarchs. "Ten-fifteen -maybe twenty thousand miles a year, and our biggest night was in Hastings, Neb.." says Banks. "We got $15 apiece...
...Cubs bought him for $15,000 and gave him what he lacked. Infielder Eddie Miksis loaned him a glove, and Coach Ray Blades bought him a book called How to Play Baseball. Banks has still never learned how to play shortstop in the manner of Honus Wagner or Marty Marion. Tired by the grind of playing day after day (he has started every game this year), Banks has trouble getting the right jump on the ball, sometimes boots the play that sets up a rally. But, better than any other shortstop in history, Ernie Banks can right the score...
...night Producer Enright went to Herb's apartment and gave him another verbal exam. "Then," says Herb, "Dan leaned back and said, 'How'd you like to win a lot of money?' I said, 'Well, sure.' 'Look,' he said, 'kid, play ball with...
...play's theme: dishonesty toward oneself is the worst policy. The play's hero: Lord Claverton, an aged, retired Cabinet minister who idly fingers the empty pages of his once-crowded engagement book. Two unwelcome visitors from the past destroy the sand castle of his memories-precarious memories of what was essentially bogus success. Visitor No. 1 is a moneyed spiv from Central America who shared in a disreputable episode of Claverton's youth. Visitor No. 2 is Maisie Mont joy (now respectably renamed Mrs. Carghill), a onetime chorus girl whom the young Claverton seduced; in true...