Word: sandlots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major leagues before he was even born. His father, Elven Charles Mantle, known as "Mutt," spent most of his working life in the Oklahoma lead and zinc mines around Commerce (pop. 2,442), but the big interest of his life was baseball. Mutt Mantle had been a sandlot player; Mutt's son was to be a big-leaguer...
...Athletics. ("I don't think he ever knew that Cochrane's real name was Gordon," says Mickey.) In good time the baby came, and Mutt Mantle had his way. The baby's middle name. Charles, came from both of Mickey's grandfathers, but especially from Grandpa Charley Mantle, another sandlot ballplayer...
...Kensington section of Philadelphia on Sept. 3, 1917, of German-Russian parents. His father, a leather glazer, was a frustrated semi-pro ballplayer. By the time Eddie could sit up, he was rolling a baseball on the floor. His mother recalls a pickup game on a nearby sandlot, when Eddie was still only a shaver. He was the catcher, and, overeager as usual, he crowded so close to the plate that he was knocked cold when the batter swung. Mother Stanky, an unperturbed spectator, said: "Just throw a bucket of water on him. He'll be all right." Eddie...
...plunked him on third base, and brought in Lefthander Bill Pierce to pitch to lefthanded slugger Ted Williams. Williams popped up, Pierce left the game, Dorish went back in to pitch, and the White Sox finally won in eleven innings. Richards explains the switch, which is no novelty in sandlot ball but a rarity in the big leagues, with a characteristic comment: "I play the percentage if it will win a ball game...
...trust the results of two recent polls, the social and psychological effects of television on young children need some intensive study. These polls, one conducted at Stamford, Conn. and the other at Roselle, N. J., indicates that video has replaced the comic book, sandlot baseball, and even eating as the primary interest of juveniles...