Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leader of the fight for continued commonwealth ties is Luis Munoz Marin, 69, a near-legendary figure among the island's ibaros (peasants). The country's first elected Governor (1948), Munoz retired three years ago in favor of his protégé, Roberto Sanchez Vilella, but has remained a powerful force in favor of the commonwealth. When Governor Sanchez doomed his political career last March by spurning his wife of 31 years in favor of a comely aide, Muñoz took over the Popular Democratic Party's drive to retain common wealth status. Ever since...
Last week 30 homers were hit around the majors in a single day. The New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle collected the 500th of his career, thereby becoming the sixth player in history to achieve the mark.* And Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates celebrated the approach of summer by driving in seven runs in one game against the Cincinnati Reds, with a double and three home runs. The luster of that feat was only somewhat dimmed by the fact that the Reds themselves pounded out 13 hits, including four doubles and a homer, and won the game...
Such disappointments are common in the life of Roberto Clemente, 32. In 1965 he won the National League batting championship with a .329 average, but he was not even elected to the league's All-Star team. In 1966 he hit -.317, clouted 29 homers, drove in 119 runs, and beat out Los Angeles Dodgers' Pitcher Sandy Koufax for the Most Valuable Player award - but his team blew the pennant to the Dodgers in the last week of the season. All told, Clemente has three batting titles to his credit-but nobody has ever asked...
...noise while I'm in bed, I hear it-a truck outside the hotel, a footstep in the hall." And that he is widely regarded as an unreconstructed hypochondriac, whose headaches, colds, cramps and nervous stomach come from worrying-about his headaches, colds, cramps and stomach. Even so, Roberto, says Pittsburgh Manager Harry Walker, "is just the best player in baseball, that...
When Pappas tried to waste an outside fastball, Clemente reached out and poked the ball 400 ft. over the right centerfield fence. Next time Roberto came up, Pappas threw him another fastball, but this time high and inside. Clemente leaned back and swatted it 400 ft. into the rightfield stands...