Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor, New York Press-agent Jim Moran, 51, has found a needle in a haystack (after 82 hr. 35 min.), hatched an ostrich egg (19 days on the nest), sold an icebox to an Eskimo and two snow-blind fleas to Paramount (for use under klieg lights), to pitch himself or a client into the newspapers. Last week Moran was landing in print again, on a coast-to-coast search for "the happiest girl in America-a girl as happy as a Lark." His client: Studebaker's Lark...
...Without the characteristic roar of blastoff, a Navy Polaris popped out of a large tube, impelled by compressed air in a device the Navy has installed at Canaveral to simulate the pitch and roll of a ship. Dubbed "the world's largest cocktail shaker," the $3,000,000 ship-motion simulator was held steady for this test, which concentrated on the compressed-air takeoff. It worked perfectly. The Polaris jumped silently to a point 60 ft. overhead where its first-stage engine came to life, and the missile left a long white trail behind as it took...
...come for Rocky. His happy combination of mental zeal and physical weal long ago caught the approving eye of Boston's great Ted Williams, who has tried to get the young muscleman to curb his passion for bashing the ball-any ball -and to wait for a good pitch. Says Williams: "Some day Rocky is going to take the league apart...
...already got Willie Mays' range." Robinson is so painfully shy that he has little to say even around his Redleg teammates. But at bat Robinson is a power swinger who leans his head perilously close to the plate to get a good view of the pitch, last week hit a grand-slam home run as his team beat Milwaukee 9-8. In 1956, at the age of 20, Robinson broke into the Redlegs' lineup, promptly hit 38 home runs to tie the majors' record for first-year men, and made rookie of the year. This season...
...Tito Francona, 25, is the late-bloomer of the season, a player who was shunted in three years' time from the Orioles to the White Sox to the Tigers to the Indians, where he began the year on the bench. In Cleveland, Francona was soon coaxing players to pitch to him by the hour in the empty stadium, gradually improved a swing that had always been basically sound. Manager Joe Gordon took a hand. "He got me to swing down on the ball-what he calls 'tomahawk' it-so I'd level out my swing," says...