Word: snider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, the Nationals have Stan Musial and Duke Snider, and both have shown a relish for All Star kudos. Orlando Cepeda and Willie McCovey can also deliver, although not always in tough places...
...history of modern major-league baseball. They had their laughs, though-like the time "Marvelous Marv" Throneberry walloped a triple and failed to touch either first or second base. But all that was going to change this year. The lineup was full of fierce young rookies, Oldtime Slugger Duke Snider (389 lifetime homers) was on hand from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Mets' owner, Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, felt pretty optimistic. "I simply cannot stand 120 losses this year," she said. "If we can't get anything, we are going to cut those losses down-at least...
...fire Walter Alston. Compounding the confusion at Chavez Ravine is the presence of ex-manager Leo Durocher and future-manager Pete Reiser. So much for management; on the labor side there are not enough outfield jobs to keep Tom Davis, Willie Davis, Frank Howard, Ron Fairly, Wally Moon, Duke Snider (enjoying another fine spring) and Lee Walls working happily. The unemployment problem is embodied in the case of Moon, a real star who appeared in only 95 games last year, could not hit stride, and wound up with a .242 mark...
Last year's rookie star Tom Davis holds down third, and behind him loom the reliable Jim Gilliam and the highly prized Charlie Smith. The same situation exists in the outfield where Wally Moon, Willie Davis, and Duke Snider will keep Ron Fairly, Don Demeter, and outstanding rookie Carl Warwick benched much of the time...
...will platooning affect youngsters like Howard and Fairly? How comfortably will Gilliam (who has played 150 games a year for ten years) sit on the bench with Moon, Hodges, and Demeter? How freely will Snider swing or Craig throw, worrying about next year's inevitable draft...