Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them for $500, the Giants decided to keep him in the organization. Off he went to the Michigan City White Caps in the Class D Midwest League-where he led the league in innings pitched (245), victories (21;) and earned-run average (1.87). In 1959, he moved up to Springfield in the Class A Eastern League. There he invented his now famous high kick and taught himself how to throw a screwball-but otherwise it was the same story: No. 1 in innings pitched (271), No. 1 in victories (18), No. 1 in ERA (2.39), and No. 1 in strikeouts...
...feeding ideas to their state capitals on urban-renewal and welfare programs, but city halls have been ignored for so long that few bother to do so. Half of the states go so far as to deny home rule to their cities, an absurdity that forces Chicago to ask Springfield for everything down to the right to license peanut vendors. That absurdity is also forcing Mayor John Lindsay of New York City-whose $4.6 billion budget is larger than any state's-to go hat in hand to Albany to beg for the new taxes that he believes...
...University of Ilinois he majored in journalism--getting mostly C's-and captained the varsity golf team. And after graduation he got his first job--as a reporter for the Springfield (Ohio) Daily News at $10 a week--from a man he had caddied for as a body...
...Harvard Water Polo Club, wet off a 2-4 season, has elected Richard Smith '67 of Kirkland House and Springfield, Ohio, president for next year; Jan Rus '69, of Matthews Hall and La Hambra, Cal. vice-president; James Babcock '67 of Kirkland House and Minneapolis, Minn. treasurer; and Bruce Shore, lecturer on Astronomy secretary. This year the waterballers topped Brooklyn Polytech, 12-7, and M.I.T., 9-5, but drowned under Queens, Army, Fordham, and St. Francis...
ARLENE SARDO Springfield, Mass...