Word: innings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...held by Ted Kluszewski and Yogi Berra. "I'm just doing the same old things in the same old way," said Richardson in wonderment. "But, whango, something seems to happen to the ball.'' All this was prelude to the seventh and deciding game. In the first inning, with one man on base, up to bat stepped a garrulous vagabond named Rocky Nelson, 35. In his 16-season baseball career, Nelson had played for six big-league teams and been consigned to the minors five times before finally catching on with Pittsburgh, where he was revered...
Hoisting a Highball. As they had so often over the regular season, the Yankees fought back and were leading, 7-6, in the eighth inning, when another of baseball's castoffs, Catcher Hal Smith, 29, came to bat for Pittsburgh. On a pitch low and fast, Smith hit a three-run homer to give the Pirates a 9-7 lead...
...Guillotine. The third game brought the teams to New York, where Yankee fans calmly accepted the Series as an annual rite of autumn, as expectable as Thanksgiving. Beginning where they had left off, the Yankees in the first inning had already scored two runs and loaded the bases when the unlikeliest slugger of them all stepped into the box, looking fully as dangerous as any promising Little Leaguer. Second Baseman Bobby Richardson got every bit of his 5-ft. 9-in., 166-lb. frame behind his swing and hit a grand-slam home run into the leftfield seats. For Richardson...
...Drive. Spahn treats his left arm as the treasure it is. To protect it from strain, he long ago developed a fluid motion that produces tremendous body leverage. With this care, Spahn never has had to baby his arm in a game, never has missed a single big-league inning because of soreness. "Pitchers don't go out of baseball because of their age,'' says Spahn. "Either you learn the proper ways of throwing or you don't last...
...eighth inning with one out and the Sox behind 4 to 2, Ted lined a perfect fast ball over the right field bullpen...