Word: 500th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only hits, an American League aberration). He is platooned with Rose's old comrade, 40-year-old Tony Perez, who takes the lefthanded pitchers, while Yaz gets the righthanders. "Pete is a hitting machine; Yaz is a hard-working hitter," says Perez, who collected his own 2,500th hit the other day. Yastrzemski's career batting average (.286) is the lowest of the 15 men who have made 3,000 hits. He had to grind harder and longer...
...mainly interested in the individuals," Kelley says. "I tried to think of them as people first then as athletes. When Kelley played his 500th game in 1972, all of Boston College celebrated with him. A 400-Ib cake was wheeled onto the ice and sliced up for the spectators, and B.C. President Father W. Seavey Joyce S.J. declared a holiday and closed the school on the following...
...fact, there already is such an audience, and as Luke was beginning his ad ventures on the air, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater was celebrating a kind of anniversary by sending out its 2,500th broadcast. Started in 1974 by Hunan Brown, whose own radio career dates back to 1929, Mystery Theater has presented everything from Dr. Jekylland...
...even Scheherazade could have conceived the splendid scene beside the ancient ruins of Persepolis. The occasion was the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great, and the Shah of Iran had decided to throw a party that would dazzle even the most jaded of his guests: Kings and Queens, Presidents and Premiers, sheiks and sultans. More than $100 million was spent on tents lined with silk and furnished with Baccarat crystal and Porthault linens, banquets laden with roast peacock stuffed with foie gras, magnums of Château Lafite-Rothschild...