Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly Samuel Edward McDowell's fault that he is not the most noticeable player in baseball. He goes out of his way to be noticed. A 23-year-old lefthander who pitches for the Cleveland Indians, "Sudden Sam" McDowell can throw a baseball faster than anybody else in the American League, and he stands 6 ft. 5 in. tall-"two inches of which," someone once noted, "is hair." Sam's taste in clothes is provocative. He showed up for work this spring looking like Black Bart-black ranch pants, black coat, black neckerchief, black cowboy boots and black...
...Cleveland two weeks ago, Sam shut out the Kansas City Athletics 2-0, allowing the A's just one base hit-a pop-fly single. Six days later he beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0, tying a major-league record by pitching his second straight one-hitter; the lone hit this time was a bloop double that barely eluded the outstretched glove of Cleveland's first baseman. Last week he went twelve innings against Baltimore-allowing only one run, striking out ten batters-before giving way to a relief pitcher with the score tied...
Jeff Huvelle, sprinting most of the distance into the wind, won the 440 in 49.0 seconds, with Dave McKelvey sneaking into second a step ahead of Sam Robinson in another Harvard sweep. No Yale runner placed in any race longer than...
...Sam Robinson won the 220 in 21.9 after Wayne Andersen pulled a muscle while leading the race. Anderson had won the 100 easily in 10.1 from Yale's touted Rich Robinson, who ran third behind Cole...
...that every defense had to be employed. Under the high drama of last week's dogfights, the workhorse bombers were busy as ever. Guam-based B-52s unloaded 300 tons of high explosives on the Mu Gia Pass infiltration route into South Viet Nam; Navy jets hit a SAM site near Vinh and sank 248 junks moving men and arms south by convoy. Whether the MIG commitment could partially turn that aerial tide remained to be seen...