Word: sain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managers and coaches tip the scales? If so, Mayo Smith, an eternal second-division zero, has taken over the Tigers and should offset any improvements rendered by new pitching coach Johnny Sain. Sain was replaced in Minnesota by Early Wynn, who combined with Birdie Tebbetts to get the least possible out of the Indians' staff last year. Joe Adcock, an all-time favorite since hitting four homers in one game at Ebbets Field and reaching the center-field bleachers at the Polo Grounds, is the Tribe's new manager. Oh, and Dick Williams will similarly improve the Bosox...
More On the Ball. In Manager Sam Mele's opinion, the Twins' greatest improvement came where it was needed most: on the mound. Under the coaching of Curve Baller John Sain, formerly with the Boston Braves, the Twins' pitchers have performed remarkably well: Jim Perry, with a new breaking curve in his repertoire, has six wins, no losses; Jim "Mudcat" Grant has won nine games and lost three; Camilo Pascual's record is 8-2. There is some notable talent in Mele's bullpen, too. "Last year we'd go into the late innings...
Spahn and Sain...
...textile mill, and the sons of nomad horsemen study physics at the state university. Russia and its European satellites have poured nearly $3 billion into Outer Mongolia. Hungarian technicians operate 300 oil wells in the Gobi desert, and the crude oil is trucked to a Soviet-built refinery at Sain Shanda. At the town of Sukhe Bator is a paper mill and a factory that turns out prefabricated houses. The Russian metallurgical plant at Darkhan produces 300,000 tons of steel per year. Soviet geologists claim to have discovered important deposits of coal, copper, manganese fluoride, tin, zinc and wolfram...