Word: pitcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brawler.... They say he packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...
After the young pitcher showed his stuff by throwing out the first ball for the home opener, Washington Senators Owner Bob Short offered him a job. "Let me think about that one," said the righthander. A few weeks later, David Eisenhower signed a contract (at an undisclosed salary) to serve the Senators as an administrative assistant for the summer. His chief duty: to compile statistics on the players...
Larry Jansen, pitching coach for the San Francisco Giants, spends his leisure moments slicing up baseballs with a knife. He is convinced that there is a mysterious something inside the new balls that makes them take off like spaceships-especially when his pitchers are on the mound. In a recent exhibition game, Giant hurlers blew a five-run lead and suffered a shameful 8-7 loss to the University of Santa Clara. Two days later, the Giants wasted an eight-run advantage and lost 17-16 to the lowly San Diego Padres. Last week they even let a pitcher clobber...
Alive and Strong. Baseball men like to say that pitching is the name of the game. But now that the pitcher's mound has been lowered and the strike zone reduced, the name seems to be slugging. One day last month, National League hitters slammed a record total of 26 home runs; two days later the musclemen in both leagues hit a record 46 homers. And along with the rain of homers there has been a positive cloudburst of singles, doubles and triples. In the first six weeks of the season, A.L. batters hit at a .253 clip...
...spectrum of shades, plus prints and patterns in color combinations as shocking as eels. The Voit Rubber Corp. highlights a collection of dazzlingly designed short-sleeved jackets, most popular for water-skiing but also considered eminently useful by such diverse divers as Prince Rainier of Monaco and Mets Pitcher Jerry Koosman...