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...acts, says Dodger Catcher John Roseboro, "like a chair whose legs suddenly collapse." Control? "When an umpire calls my pitch a ball," says Koufax casually, "that means it is either high or low. It's never outside or inside." All in all, agrees St. Louis Cardinals' Slugger Ken Boyer, "Koufax is just too damned much...
Died. John Franklin ("Home Run") Baker, 77, Hall of Fame slugger in baseball's era of the "dead ball," who as a third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics in Connie Mack's famed "$100,000 infield" four times led the American League in homers (peak year: 1913, with twelve), retired in 1922 to his Maryland farm when his legs started to fail; of a stroke; in Trappe...
...allow. Wagner wears a golf glove on his left hand,* grips the bat in unorthodox fashion-with his hands split two inches apart, à la Ty Cobb. "When my bat meets the ball," he says, "that old pill really takes off." Except in Chavez Ravine. For some mysterious reason, Slugger Wagner has yet to hit a homer in his own home park...
...history of modern major-league baseball. They had their laughs, though-like the time "Marvelous Marv" Throneberry walloped a triple and failed to touch either first or second base. But all that was going to change this year. The lineup was full of fierce young rookies, Oldtime Slugger Duke Snider (389 lifetime homers) was on hand from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Mets' owner, Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, felt pretty optimistic. "I simply cannot stand 120 losses this year," she said. "If we can't get anything, we are going to cut those losses down-at least...
...Mets have nowhere to go but up, the Houston Colts are likely cellar occupants. Fleet Manny Mota and Dave Roberts should provide some punch, but the team stands to lose (except at the gate) in trading slugger Roman Mejias for Texan Pete Runnells...