Word: dodgerism
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...Strange things," says Los Angeles Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, "happen in September." Wills should know. As a 13-year veteran, he has helped the Dodgers hex the San Francisco Giants time after time in the late-summer stretch. This year, though, promised to be different. Off to their fastest start in a decade, the Giants led the National League's Western Division by as many as eleven games through the first five months of the season. Now in September, some strange things, like a Dodger streak and a Giant slump, make it look like the California version of Suddenly...
Since he joined the Pirates nine years ago, he has always hit what he likes to call "long taters"-a 512-ft. shot over the bleachers in the Los Angeles Dodger Stadium, a 542-ft. blast over the right-centerfield wall in Forbes Field. Trouble is, Willie has never been able to sustain his slugging over an entire season. Periodically slowed by bad knees, both of which have been operated on for bone chips, he is one of the league's most notorious streak hitters. Five years ago, for example, he set some kind of hot-cold record...
...What former Dodger lefthander was signed as a free agent by the Pardres and had a 5-6 record in 17 games in 1969 before retiring to take a job as the Padres' minor league pitching coach? He began his career in 1953 with Brooklyn...
...before, such moments of violence surrounded by uneventful years. Accepting her humiliations the old-fashioned way -pretending not to notice them-she takes pride in sanctioned achievements like cotton chopping. She gets religion, and she takes to Huey Long. When Jackie Robinson comes along, she turns into a Dodger fan. In the 1960s Jane's new surrogate son rises up to make an issue of segregated drinking fountains. He too is killed, but this time, almost 100 years after she tried her first step out of slavery, Jane continues that march...
...fight has become a classic in an other way. Shrewd prefight publicity has turned the billing into Frazier the good citizen v. Ali the draft dodger, Frazier the white man's champ v. Ali the great black hope, Frazier the quiet loner v. Ali the irrepressible loudmouth, Frazier the simple Bible-reading Baptist v. Ali the slogan-spouting Black Muslim. Frazier, who is generally as impassive as a ring post, would have it otherwise, but he has no choice...