Word: throwers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nieder had often been erratic under pressure, had flopped badly at the Olympic trials and made the team only when Qualifier Dave Davis hurt his wrist. California's Parry O'Brien, 28, two-time Olympic champion, delighted in calling Nieder "a cow pasture thrower" given to choking in the big events. But after hitting 67 ft. 1 in. in practice. Nieder was the picture of confidence as he strode into the arena wearing a jaunty yellow straw hat bought especially to rattle his rivals: "I decided to do a little 'psyching' of my own." Rocketing across...
...trials were over, the showdown at Rome was still a fortnight away, but the U.S. Olympic men's track and field team was in no relaxing mood. The big idea at the final tune-up meet at California's Mount San Antonio Col lege, explained Hammer Thrower Hal Connolly, was "to go over there to Rome with something to scare 'em with." The scare was there: in one evening the U.S. stars broke four world records and tied two more...
...evening was still young when Connolly himself let loose a heave that sent the hammer thudding to earth 230 ft. 9 in. away-thereby breaking his own world record by 5 ft. 5 in. Discus thrower Rink Babka, 23, equaled the world record of Poland's Edmund Piatowski twice, with tosses that went 196 ft. 6½ in. Shot-putter Bill Nieder, 26, had a special incentive to go for broke. Hampered by an injured knee at the July trials, he had made the Olympic squad only as an alternate, though he holds the world record...
California-home base of the hardest thrower in organized baseball; see SPORT, The Wildest Pitcher...
...hardest thrower in organized baseball is Steve Dalkowski Jr., a sturdy lefthander who pitches for the Stockton Ports in the Class C California League. The wildest pitcher in baseball is also Steve Dalkowski Jr.-and as such he has, at 21, already become legendary...