Word: redleg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard-throwing Ross Grimsley overpowered the Pittsburgh Pirates with a two-hitter, winning, 7-1. Three errors by the Pirates combined with 11 Redleg hits accounted for Cincinnati's seven runs. Roberto Clemente collected both Pirate hits, including a seventh inning home...
...chronicle of baseball. Roger Bresnahan, who teamed with Christy Mathewson on the old New York Giants, was probably the earliest, and Bill Dickey of the 1930s New York Yankees was possibly the greatest. Others in the pantheon are Gabby Hartnett, Detroit's Mickey Cochrane, and an earlier Redleg, Ernie Lombardi, whose style and skills closely parallel Bench's own. It may well be that Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays in the old Negro League was better than any of them. Then add the Brooklyn Dodger Blockbuster Roy Campanella (TIME Cover, Aug. 8, 1955) and the Yankees...
...spectacular. He is broad (making him a good target for the pitcher), strong and agile. He can hold seven baseballs in one simian paw. But, most impressive, he throws a single baseball harder than the limits of human ability would seem to allow. "I wish," says one wistful Redleg pitcher, "that I could throw the way he does." Bench once proudly announced: "I can throw out any base runner alive." His challenge was quickly met by the best alive, the Cardinals' Lou Brock, who at the time had 21 straight stolen bases to his credit. Brock did not make...