Word: stan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second inning at Milwaukee's County Stadium, and the old man on the mound stared coldly at the old man in the batter's box-the Braves' Warren Spahn, 42, baseball's dean of pitchers, against the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial, 42, who had just added Babe Ruth's extra-base hit record to the 54 other marks he holds or shares. Spahn wound up and threw. Crack! Thunk! Oof! A screaming line drive hit Spahn squarely in the belly. He staggered and fell. Somehow he picked up the ball and threw Musial...
Double winners Stan Walker and Bob Anscheutz led Eliot House to a decisive victory in the House track meet held Thursday and Friday. The Elephants scored a total of 53 1/2 points in winning the event for the second straight year...
...stands. At 42, the St. Louis Cardinal outfielder is the oldest active player in the major leagues; he has a 23-year-old son (who plans a career in business or the Army instead of baseball) and a daughter-in-law who is expecting a baby in August. But Stan the Man is not quite ready for the rocking chair. Under the lights in St. Louis last week, Musial abruptly uncoiled from his corkscrew stance, stepped into a pitch thrown by the Dodgers' Bob Miller, and cracked it into the Busch Stadium bleachers. I was his 465th home...
...lower-ranked players sealed the win for the Crimson after the top two golfers had lost. Stan Abrams, leading by three holes with three to go, fell apart on the last three holes and was tied at the end of 18. He halved the first four extra holes, but lost on the twenty-third, one-up. Abrams had played the first 15 holes in even...
...Churches, the association has sometimes seemed to be the great dissenter of U.S. Christianity. In past conventions, delegates hurled mighty anathemas at their list of enemies of the Gospel-liberal Protestants, Godless Communists, Roman Catholics eager for political influence. "But now we have a position." observes the Rev. Stan Mooneyham of Wheaton, 111. "We are no longer reacting...