Word: satchel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walking contradiction in terms-a Met slugger -Jones has another proud distinction. He is one of the few players in major-league history to be a righthanded batter and a lefthanded thrower. He came by his aberration honestly, while growing up in Mobile, Ala., the town that also produced Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey, Billy Williams and Met Teammate Tommie Agee. "We played stickball when we were kids," he explains, "and there was this porch on the first-base side. If you hit the ball up there it was lost, and it wasn't easy to get another...
...bull. He can tell what the bull's gonna do next." The tangled syntax sounded almost like Casey Stengel winding up for one of his all-out assaults on sports writers. Not so. Old Case has some formidable competition these days from fabled Negro Pitcher Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, 60, or thereabouts, and still in the game with the Atlanta Braves. In fact, as he listened to himself, Satchel thought he saw a whole new career. "Man, maybe I'll take to the lecture trail. When you're 6 feet 3½ inches and only weigh...
...Cambodia. Two weeks after the offensive began, no fewer than 800 Communist troops stormed Landing Zone Grant, charging through three rows of concertina barbed wire. In the battle, a rocket crashed into the command post, killing the base commander, Lieut. Colonel Peter Gorvad. Last week, armed with machine guns, satchel charges and flamethrowers, they tried again. This time the Americans were waiting; cranking down their huge 105-and 155-mm. guns, they opened up on the attackers pointblank. The two extended battles took the lives of 17 Americans and 285 North Vietnamese...
...similar suicidal attack penetrated the defense perimeter of the 25th U.S. Division headquarters at Cu Chi, northwest of Saigon. In that charge about 50 sappers managed to sneak through ten defensive rings of wire, then sprinted down a flight line and destroyed nine helicopters with satchel charges. Only a few of the attackers carried rifles; the survivors later explained that they had left their valuable weapons behind before going into the assault-in the knowledge that they would not survive the mission...
...Satchel is one of the greatest pitchers of all time," said Braves Owner William Bartholomay, "and baseball would be guilty of negligence should it not assure this legendary figure a place in the pension plan." That it would. Though Satch leaves everyone guessing about his age, he was born some time around 1905, the son of a Mobile, Ala., gardener. In an era when professional sport was for whites only, the gangling, broad-shouldered iron man with the blazing fastball had to sweat out a living on the old Negro circuit. For almost three decades, he pitched as often...