Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Harvard student returned yesterday to Cambridge for the first time in almost 50 years...
...coins, some of which date back nearly 2500 years, are part of a collection valued at between $2 and $13 million that the Fogg used for teaching purposes, Delahunt said. "The coins are almost impossible to appraise because many are extremely rare," he added...
...Prez?" Or how about the time Don "Perfect Game" Larsen totalled his car during spring training and Casey Stengel, when asked what Larsen was doing out at five in the morning, replied, "He went out to mail a letter." Or the time in 1977 when the Yanks almost traded Ron Guidry to the White Sox for once-and-future mediocrity Bucky Dent. Or the moron reporter who asked Maris whether he'd rather break Ruth's record...
Murray Chass's chapter on the current champions, however, is hugely disappointing. Chass covers the Yankees for the New York Times, and covers them well, with style and accuracy. Here he gives us over 60 pages with almost nothing about baseball but plenty about theh Steinbrenner-Martin-Jackson love triangle. Admittedly, it's fun to read some of Reggie "Reggae" Jackson's egotistical yammerings...
Captain Kevin Shaw and Scott Walker dropped a "B" doubles battle with Dartmouth's Mark Jeffrey and Mark Schneider, a duo they had allowed but one game in a dual meet almost two weeks ago. Walker fell to Brown's Steve Piscuskas in the singles, a player the Crimson's Bob Horne had vanquished in straight sets earlier in the year. Chaikovsky dropped a tight three-set match against Williams' Martin Goldberg in the quarterfinals of the "A" singles...