Word: shortstop
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...full well that overmanaging would cramp the egos-and crimp the play-of the bunch of oddly assorted personalities he has nursed to maturity as ballplayers: Pitcher Vernon Law (19-8), a pious Mormon elder; Third Baseman Don Hoak (.277), a sulphur-mouthed ex-Marine and ex-middleweight boxer; Shortstop Dick Groat, the intense, introspective team captain (now sidelined by a broken left wrist); and Right Fielder Roberto Clemente (.320), a showboating Puerto Rican. "They're all major leaguers," says Murtaugh. "I give 'em plenty of leeway...
...Foreign Office teams. The contest was once a classic in that the diplomats tried desperately to help the rival team win. Not so any more. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, 51, onetime player at Massachusetts' Milton Academy, smashed out a double and two singles, sparkplugged the team from his shortstop position to an 11-5 victory. Japan's bespectacled Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka, 48, who also played shortstop, hit two hard singles, shared best-player honors with MacArthur...
...write every word himself, but he strongly suggests that baseball players are something less than choir boys. He intimates that players like girls (and even do something about it in their off hours). He talks of the art of breaking up a double play by breaking up the shortstop. He admits to throwing an occasional beanball. He discusses the batting weaknesses of leading sluggers. He says the illegal spitball is "quite popular in the National League," laments only the fact that "I need a good stiff wind blowing straight out from the plate to get anything on the pitch...
...league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates' star shortstop, Dick Groat, popped up into politics by declaring himself four-square behind Richard Nixon for the presidency. Groat was a onetime roommate of Nixon's younger (now 30) brother Ed at Nixon's law school alma mater, Duke University. After thus going on record, Infielder Groat was greeted by a few boos along with the cheers when the Pirates met the Philadelphia Phillies in a doubleheader. He silenced the booers by slamming six hits in eight turns at bat, helped push the Pirates to two victories...
...Pansies" (the neighbors) was fought out each Labor Day on the Kennedy lawn. Jack usually pitched, Bobby and Teddy sometimes pouted when their homemade rules were not observed, and celebrated house guests were occasionally dragooned into the game. Once the late Senator Joe McCarthy made four errors playing shortstop for the Barefoot Boys, was retired in disgrace...