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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Weeks That Were | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...mechanical rabbit named Harvey that rose out of the ground and fed baseballs to the umpire. He dressed his A's in green-and-gold uniforms ("Kelly green and Finley gold," explained one player), installed a flock of green-andgold-blanketed sheep on a grassy slope behind the rightfield fence, passed out free Stetsons, released thousands of green-and-gold balloons with free tickets attached. He even plumped for an orange colored baseball. "The batters could see it better," he insisted, adding that bats should be green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: What Every Team Needs | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...farm club. Marvel ous Maury Wills blithely stole second on a pick-off play. Tommy Davis clouted two triples and ran his Series batting average to .625; "Moose" Skowron, still drinking thirstily at the well of revenge, put the game away with a wrong-way homer into the rightfield stands. Final score: Dodgers 4, Yankees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: K Is for Koufax | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

What heroics the two teams generated came from the lightweights and rookies, who suddenly discovered muscles they hardly knew existed. "That wasn't my best shot-I still have a little in reserve," insisted the Giants' 175-lb. Second Baseman Chuck Hiller, after he sent Rightfielder Maris back to the wall for a 296-ft. drive in the third game. Sportswriters snickered; Hiller shrugged. Next day, with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Hiller clouted a hanging curve deep into Yankee Stadium's rightfield stands for the first series grand slam ever hit by a National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookies & Lightweights | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...Everything in life is tough." But last week, as he has all season, Yankee Outfielder Maris knew just where to direct his sullen anger: at a baseball. Leaning into a low fastball thrown by Baltimore's Milt Pappas, Maris sent a whistling drive soaring high into the rightfield seats. It was his 59th homer in 154 games; he had come within one heart-stopping wallop of tying baseball's most dramatic and cherished record: the 60 home runs hit by George Herman Ruth in 1927 (seven years before Maris was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Making of a Hero | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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