Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...younger brother, with a forearm like a mutton chop, who was the greatest slugger of all. Beek was shorter and chunkier than Lawrence. Cowles persuaded him to keep hitting harder and harder until his services were so fast that opponents were sometimes hit by the rebounding ball before they could move. Sweeping the American and Canadian Intercollegiates, Beekman added the National Singles...
...ladies crowded into the $100 ringside seats, and a total of 18,096 fans paid $658,503, the biggest indoor gate in history, to see the kind of fight card that is all too rare: a doubleheader that matched 1) Italy's slick-boxing Nino Benvenuti, 29, against Slugger Emile Griffith, 30, for the world middleweight title, and 2) Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, unbeaten in 19 pro fights, against Michigan's Buster Mathis, 23, winner of 23 in a row, for the heavyweight championship of New York, Maine, Massachusetts and Illinois...
Meeting with a group of baseball luminaries in the White House last week, Lyndon Johnson accepted a bat from Boston Red Sox Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, then clowned it up for photographers by faking a bunt. The action drew a telling comment from the American League batting champion. "You're too big to be a hunter," Yastrzemski chided the President. "You have to hit home runs...
...Triple Crown Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, with nine hits and three homers in the first six games, managed only a single in four trips to the plate. Righthander Jim Lonborg, trying for a third Series victory on two days rest, came out wild and weary. Manager Dick Williams kept praying until the sixth inning, then mercifully took him out. By then, St. Louis had a six-run lead and the game was long gone...
...huge spitting-stinking cripple eases his way down the stairs to the Kenmore Square subway, propped up by a cane and a Louisville Slugger. "It's Dal Maxvill's bat--the one he got the hit with." he says. "I got it from the Cardinal clubhouse...