Word: shantz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their staff, with front liners Bob Gibson, Ray Washburn, Ernie Broglio, and Curt Simmons, and relievers Bobby Shantz and Diomedes Olivo, is not demonstratively inferior to the Giants...
...World Champion Pirates won by seven games last year, and return with exceptional balance. Their augmented bullpen (Shantz, Face, Labine, and Green) is apt to be the best in the majors. But the Pirates need maximum performance from everyone to pull through; at present they are great more in terms of publicity than performance. Mazeroski, for example, whose homer felled the Yankees, may be capable of hitting .300, but he is just as likely to bat .250. The same holds for Hoak, Stuart, Cimoli, and Hal Smith...
...American League teams, the newly formed Los Angeles Angels and Washington Senators (the old Senators creaked off to Minneapolis-St. Paul) each fished out 28 men for their rosters. First pick of the Angels: erratic Yankee Righthander Eli Grba, 26. The Senators first chose aging (35) Yankee Pitcher Bobby Shantz, then promptly traded him to Pittsburgh for Reliefer Benny Daniels and two minor leaguers...