Word: roseboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even though they boasted some of baseball's most gifted players, the 1968 Minnesota Twins finished a dismal seventh in the American League. Recalls Catcher John Roseboro: "This was not a happy ball club. The guys couldn't get together with each other or the front office. Someone was always grousing about himself or conditions on the team." Suddenly, it is the other American League clubs that are doing the grousing-about Minnesota. With polished thievery on the base paths to complement their power at the plate, the Twins are leading the league's Western Division...
...more alert now than we were a year ago," says Carew. "Martin has given a whole new spirit to the team." Roseboro and Killebrew, the club's elder statesmen, agree. "Martin gets excited and raises a lot of hell," says Roseboro, "but he keeps you on your toes." Says Killebrew: "This is a happy team now. I really think we can win it all this year." If they do, they can attribute their success to the fact that, compared with last year's band of bickering individualists, the 1969 Twins have become downright fraternal...
...only 55 bases in 164 games; this year, under the tutelage of Coach George Case, who pilfered 61 himself the Washington Senators in 1943 they have already stolen eight in eight games. Acquired in an off-season trade with the National League's Los Angeles Dodgers, Catcher John Roseboro one of the game's shrewdest tacticians: after shutting out the Senators on four hits in the Twins' opening game of the season, Pitcher Chance allowed as how he had shaken off only one of Roseboro's signs. "That," he said, "was one of the hits they...
Despite their hot streak, the Twins at week's end still trailed the Detroit Tigers by one game. So they are not spending any World Series money yet But for the moment anyway, says Catcher Roseboro, "we're having fun out there...
...left-handed side-kick Jim Kaat has arm troubles and may not pitch this year. Harmon Killebrew got lost in the Yaz excitement last year, despite his 43 homers--he is a great hitter. Oliva is still around and the Twins have picked up ex-Dodgers Roseboro and Perranoski...