Word: shortstopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also go with Bill Virdon--"one of the best centerfielders in baseball." "And you are going to see the best rightfielder in baseball," Murtaugh said in speaking of Roberto Clemente. An added boost to Pirate chances in the first game is the announcement that Dick Groat, team captain and shortstop, will play. After an injury Sept. 6, Groat resumed play only last weekend...
...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...
...turn Rookie Shortstop Ron Hansen into a power hitter (21 home runs), Richards threw away the book, let him use an unorthodox but comfortable stance with his arms close to his body. Richards' tightly reined patience even solved the apparently hopeless task of teaching Rookie Second Baseman Marve Breeding how to pivot on the double play. "Baseball is repetition," says Richards. "Hundreds of moves all over again. All spring we worked with Breeding, and he couldn't quite make it. Then, ten minutes before an exhibition game in Richmond, he caught on. He got it. The double play...
...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...