Word: 39th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is a shame, because they miss Freddie Lynn's 39th homer of the year, a frozen rope to right-center in the eighth which brings home Sizemore and ties up the game. Nobody really wants to stay for extra innings against the Blue Jays at the end of the year, and Pudge Fisk complies by clubbing the first pitch of the bottom of the ninth somewhere near Kenmore Square. As Yogi Berra once said, "It ain't over 'til it's over." Well, it's all over: Red Sox 6, Blue Jays 5. They can let the grass grow...
...festivities began last Friday night at the McDonough Gym, where the card for the 39th annual Baby Golden Gloves listed a succession of home-grown pugilists. Saturday, by invitation only, the Gold Star Mothers of South Boston assembled at Armheim's Restaurant, a local favorite, for lunch and memories. The scene moved to the Murphy rink Sunday, where those South Boston boys who model themselves after Terry O'Reilly and not Billy Bulger took over for an afternoon of "puck-shooting contests" and speed skating. Monday Miss South Boston was chosen and last night was the swimming tournament. Tomorrow...
...Crimson splashed its way to an impressive 58-point victory in the 39th annual Eastern Seaboard Swimming and Diving Championships, its first in the 17 years that team scores have been kept at the meet. In doing so, it broke a string of six straight Easterns crowns for Bill Farley's talented Princeton brigade. Despite a rampant flu bug--that bit Harvard stars Bobby Hackett and Steve Schramm, among many others--and some incredible performances by the Tigers (most notably freestyler Andy Saltzman), Harvard amassed a total of 606 points to Princeton's 548. Army captured third place with...
...phenomenon as old as the Republic but mercifully just as valid today as 202 years ago. Forget for these hours all the talk about creating a "new image" and also the considerable catalogue of complaints compiled against the 39th President. The bottom line this week on Camp David is that Carter took one big step for peace. If Americans know anything, they know how to read bottom lines. Until now Jimmy Carter's have been running...
...week's end Berlinguer's Communists were still debating whether or not Andreotti's offer was attractive enough for them to help him try to form Italy's 39th government since the collapse of Fascism...