Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nobody can stop us... Atlanta, Baltimore, nobody," Met's outfielder Cleon Jones said yesterday. "We're gonna win it all." he modestly added...
...Martin Luther King threw out the first ball in Atlanta yesterday, and Braves catcher Bob Didier dropped it. The rest of his teammates followed his example throughout the game, helping the Mets, one of the big surprises in baseball this year, to win the second game of the playoff...
...Atlanta put together an exhilirating five-run rally in the fifth inning, but it did little good since the Braves had already spotted New York a 9-0 lead. And the Braves have now spotted the Mets a 2-0 advantage in the best of five series, which resumes this afternoon in New York...
BRAVES-METS: Felix Millan, Tony Gonzalez, and Rico Carty are hot. The Braves are my favorite team. There is no question that Tom Seaver is a fine pitcher, but Atlanta will knock some of the glitter off him by winning. 4-3. I'd bet my autographed picture of Jonny Logan and my Joe Torre autograph...
Curiously, the book is at its best when retelling familiar events. From the bus boycott through the Atlanta sitins, from the jailing in Birmingham to the assassination in Memphis, Mrs. King succeeds not merely by adding intimate touches but by providing a personal context within which the events of King's public life take on a deepened drama. "If anybody had told me a couple of years ago that I would be in this position," King once explained to Coretta, "I would have avoided it with all my strength. But gradually you take some responsibility, then a little more...