Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing in the number one slot for the Quakers will be junior Clay Hamlia, a hard-serving junior who was undefeated at number three last year. Harvard's Dave Benjamin, a control player, should fare better against Hamlin today on the soft Crimson courts than he did against slugger Peese on hard courts last season...
...match which summed up the whole afternoon was at number four, Todd Wilkinson, a Crimson senior who had never lost a varsity match, mixed deep crosscourt shots with a variety of drops to win the first two games over aggressive Walt Smedley, 15-9 and 15-8. Smedley, a slugger who doesn't forfeit a point until he is down on all fours, rallied to pull out a tight third game...
...runs, and rapped out four hits to tie a Series record. "I'm still no Maury Wills " insisted Centerfielder Willie Davis, who stole three bases in one game. "I had a hell of a good time," said Rightfielder Ron Fairly, only 5 ft. 10 in. but the top slugger in the Series, with three doubles, two homers, a .379 batting average and six RBI's. Twins' Leftfielder Bob Allison saved one game with a diving catch, won another with a two-run homer-and still insisted, "I was a bust," because he struck out nine times...
...Homers. They had reason to feel safe. The only way they could lose the pennant would be to wake up. The only man on the club who was batting as high as .290 was a pitcher, and the team's top slugger had hit only 12 home runs all year. (Not counting "Dodger homers," in which, as explained last week by Shortstop Maury Wills: "I get a base on balls, take second on a sacri fice, steal third, and come home on a fly ball.") But just the night before, the Dodgers had won their twelfth straight game...
...alertness." Back came Franks as the Giants' manager for 1965. Most experts picked the Giants to finish no better than fifth, one rung down the ladder from last year. They had only one lefthanded pitcher on their roster - Bob Hendley - whom they swiftly traded off to Chicago. Star Slugger Orlando Cepeda (31 homers, 97 RBIs in 1964) was laid up, maybe permanently, with an injured knee. Leftfielder Willie McCovey was suffering from bone spurs and fallen arches. Even Willie Mays seemed over the hill; in 1964 he had slipped under .300 for the first time in eight years...