Word: sluggers
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...York tabloids offered cash prizes for predictions of which days Maris would hit a homer, how many he would hit. Nightly newscasts in Israel included Maris' personal box score for the day, and papers in baseball-happy Japan begged U.S. wire services for interviews with the Yankee slugger. Even when the Yankees made their 26th pennant mathematically certain last week, the news ran second to Maris' 59th homer...
Married. Theodore Samuel ("Ted") Williams, 43, longtime Boston Red Sox slugger ("I'm still probably as good a hitter as there is around") turned Sears, Roebuck sales promotion star; and Lee Howard, 36, beauteous, blonde fashion model; both for the second time; in Cambridge, Mass...
...high school, and wrote, with Frank Loesser, such pop songs as In Love with the Memory of You. Baseball was his enduring passion: "Had I been a better catcher, I might never have been a musician." His only opera, The Mighty Casey, is about Mudville's heroic slugger...
Died. Captain May Williams, 70, a 48-year veteran of the Salvation Army, whose dismay when her son Ted took to playing Sunday baseball for a brewery gave way to pride after he became the peerless slugger of the Boston Red Sox ("The reason he is so good is that God cooperates"); of a stroke; in a Santa Barbara, Calif., nursing home...
Last week, stepping in to umpire Mantle's off-diamond performance, the Federal Trade Commission coldly advised the Yankee slugger to stop endorsing one product he admittedly does not consume: the milk marketed by Mid-West Creamery Co., Inc. of Ponca City, Okla.-which got the rights to Mantle's name from a dairy association that has him under contract. Well aware of the dangers of arguing with the ump, Oklahoma-born Mantle promptly agreed...