Word: sluggers
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...York Yankees' Babe Ruth was a magnificent exception, a star pitcher (lifetime record: 94-46) long before he became the greatest home-run hitter in history. One afternoon last week, the Yanks produced another rule breaker: Outfielder Rocky Colavito, 35, the former Cleveland Indian slugger (TIME cover, Aug. 24, 1959) recently signed by New York...
...sting like a bee. He does not even practice poetastry or Islam. Though he is no Muhammad Ali, Joltin' Joe is still the second-best heavyweight in the world, and there is excitement in his artless approach to his trade. Utterly lacking in fistic science, Frazier is a slugger in the savage style of Rocky Marciano. "I punch and get punched," says Joe. "He lays it on me, and I lay it on him. That's what fightin' is all about...
...successor, General Creighton W. Abrams Jr., 53, a hard-cussing, cigar-chomping specialist in tank warfare, takes over the superb American military machine Westmoreland did so much to fashion in Viet Nam and is bringing in new generals to give it new directions. "Abe is by nature a slugger and a killer," judges one of his military peers. "Westy tends to be a boxer." And after a year spent spurring South Viet Nam's army to action, Abrams is at last able to supply them with the M-16 rifles that Westmoreland requested in 1965 and other modern weaponry...
...baseball player, Wood--a line drive slugger--was a consistent .300 hitter. As a senior, he went through more than 20 games with only two errors...
...younger brother, with a forearm like a mutton chop, who was the greatest slugger of all. Beek was shorter and chunkier than Lawrence. Cowles persuaded him to keep hitting harder and harder until his services were so fast that opponents were sometimes hit by the rebounding ball before they could move. Sweeping the American and Canadian Intercollegiates, Beekman added the National Singles...