Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having his best year. With $60,331 already in the bank, he was-and still is-a good bet to smash his alltime money-winning record of $75,262, set in 1960. Having won his third Masters title in April, he now had visions of a one-year "grand slam," winning all four of pro golf's major championships-Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and Professional Golfers' Association. Nobody, not Hagen or Hogan or Snead or Sarazen, had ever accomplished that before. "I want to win this one more than any tournament I've ever played," said...
...play big-time golf for a living are apt to mutter: "It's a Palmer day." So Much Green. This year, any day is Arnie Palmer's day. Not since Bobby Jones won the U.S. and British amateurs, the U.S. and British opens in his "Grand Slam" year of 1930 has one player so dominated the game of golf. With 14 tournaments and six victories behind him, $59,308 already in his pocket and the golden summer tour still ahead, Palmer (TIME Cover, May 2, 1960) is virtually assured of becoming the richest golfer of all time...
...make a Yankee wince. But this spring the Yankees took him firmly in hand, changed his stance and taught him to harness his wild, one-for-the-moon swing. Last week Boyer was batting .368-tops on the team; he had hit five homers (including his first grand slam), driven in twelve runs. Manager Ralph Houk moved him up six notches in the line-up (to second), and even Yogi Berra was impressed. "When you see anybody hit two homers into the upper deck in Washington," said Yogi, "he ain't what you would call an ordinary hitter...
Paced by two grand-slam home runs by Mike ("The Man") Lottman and the no-hit pitching of Joe ("Cowboy" Russin) and Steve ("The Arm") Roberts, the CRIMSON exploded with 37 hits after two out in the ninth. Pinch-hitter Steve Rogers scored the deciding twenty-third run, stealing second, third, and home in one play with a dazzling display of base-path wizardry. Tocsin's two runs came in the fourth when Joe ("Wild Man") Russin walked five in succession...
...bells of Memorial Church chimed noon, and Biff admired the Coop sportsjacket that was now his "uniform." "How well I fit in," he thought. "They all think they're so smart around here, but they'd never suspect...." Yet even before he finished this reflection, he felt something slam into him and knock him off balance. Picking himself up from the path, he saw a little foreign-looking man scramble up from the ground and rush over...