Word: roseboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first. Next day they lost to the reluctant Braves and bounced back to third again. The second-place (1-game) San Francisco Giants had been waiting breathlessly all week for Pitcher Juan Marichal to get back in action after an eight-game suspension for beaning the Dodgers' John Roseboro with a bat. Then word got to Marichal that Roseboro was suing him for $110,000. He lost to the Philadelphia Phillies...
Sandy Koufax's curve ball was low and inside. Juan Marichal, 27, ace pitcher (record: 19-9) of the San Francisco Giants, stood in the batter's box and watched it go by. Behind him, Los Angeles Dodger Catcher John Roseboro wound up, took aim and rifled the return throw right past the batter's ear. Marichal spun around. "Why do you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He started straight for Marichal, and in front of 42,807 horrified-or delighted, as the case may be-fans, Marichal swung...
Instantly, the infield at Candlestick Park was jammed with milling, jostling players trying to separate the combatants-or get in a lick or two of their own. By the time everybody got back to the ball game, 15 minutes later, policemen were guarding the dressing rooms, and both Roseboro and Marichal had been escorted from the park...
...Dodgers can play defense this year. John Kennedy, a third baseman acquired from the Washington Senators, is a good enough fielder to take some of the pressure off Maury Wills, who has had his troubles at short. John Roseboro, Ron Fairly, Wes Parker, and Tommy and Willie Davis will have to provide what punch the team will have...
Injuries have hurt, of course. Roseboro will be out of action for a week, and Pitcher Johnny Podres has been idle since May because of a bone chip in his elbow. Outfielder Tommy Davis was hampered early in the season by a shoulder injury-but that scarcely explains how a man who led the National League in batting for two years in a row can be hitting .272 now. Moans Dodger Coach Pete Reiser: "There were at least nine ball games we would have won if Davis could just have hit a long...