Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a home run. Outfielder Willie Mays hit a triple to deepest center field. First Baseman Orlando Cepeda walloped a 450-ft. home run, and Outfielder Jackie Brandt followed with another homer-all off Ike Delock, Boston's winningest pitcher last year. In his box behind third base, the Giants' President Horace Stoneham smiled broadly. "This is a real team," he said. "We'll be there all the way this season, and if we win it, there may be no stopping us for five years to come." Nobody seemed to mind that the Giants eventually dropped...
...than any other team in the National League, led the league for brief periods until early August, when the inadequate pitching staff finally folded completely. Explains Manager Bill Rigney: "We had to borrow tomorrow's pitching today, and it finally caught up with us." The Giants finished third, behind Milwaukee and Pittsburgh...
...Cepeda, 21, a big, amiable Puerto Rican, broke in last year with a .312 batting average, 25 home runs, 96 runs batted in ("I butcher in field," he says, "but you forget bad field when I hit"). Catcher Bob Schmidt, 25, hit 14 homers as a rookie last year. Third Baseman Jim Davenport, 25, hits adequately (.256), fielded so brilliantly in his freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop, Andre Rodgers, 24, a onetime Bahamas cricket player, seems finally to have solved big-league pitching, was leading...
...final round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. He overhauled the leaders with a six-under-par final round of 66. Arnold Palmer, last year's Masters champion, who tied for the lead with Canada's Stan Leonard at the end of the third round, triple-bogied the treacherous twelfth hole, narrowly missed two short putts, ended up with a two-over-par 74 and third place, behind steady Gary Middlecoff...
...Window. For Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann, 55, the expedition fulfilled a long-frustrated dream. He first tried to get to the monastery in 1932, but was turned back by an attack of typhus. A second try was stymied by the start of World War II, and a third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint...