Word: babe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bird dogs against the best in the nation. Rival trainers unabashedly gawk when Morton and his pointers begin to hunt for quail in the South's winter-barren cornfields and amid the tufts of sedge and lespedeza. "Clyde Morton," says one owner, "is to dog trials what Babe Ruth was to baseball...
Baseball has changed little since Babe Ruth first started swatting home runs over fences; football has been largely content to find new uses for old techniques of the pass and the T formation. But basketball, that peculiarly American sport, has undergone a dramatic transformation...
...stolen bases with 797 in an era when the catcher stood far behind the plate, died in 1940. Carey, like Hamilton an out fielder, ran rampant with Pittsburgh and Brooklyn for 20 years after leaving St. Louis' Concordia Seminary in 1910. A prodigious student of the game ("Babe Ruth killed scientific ball"), Carey mem orized the mannerisms of pitchers, once pulled nine consecutive successful double steals with a teammate named Casey Sten gel, established the modern National League standard of 738 thefts. After re tiring, he returned to the Dodgers as man ager in 1932 and 1933, was, until...
Havana's government-operated television station CMQ presented an unusual Nativity scene for Cubans to ponder last week. Above the building's entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied...
...after another, like shots from a Roman candle, the balls soared over the outfield fences. When the first game's batting practice was over, the slugging New York Yankees of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri had turned the onlooking Pittsburgh Pirates into a band of idolatrous sand loiters. After that, the Yankees went on to win the 1927 World Series in four straight games. Until 1960, it was Pittsburgh's last pennant...