Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dudley's speed and adept ball handling easily stopped Eliot's slow, unorganized attack. If none of the Commuters had scored except John Woods, they still would have had a one point edge over Eliot. The tall forward dropped ten field goals and one foul shot through the hoop for a total of 21 points...
...pinball machines were pretty dull. The balls simply rolled back to the player; accumulating free games was a matter of luck. But the new machines incorporate a pair of mechanical devices which have taken pinball out of the shoot-and-pray classification and given the player a show for his money. One of these is the "live" bumper, essentially an electromagnet surrounding a spring; when touched by a ball it promptly squats down and sends the ball hurtling around the board. The other is the flipper, a little plastic arm controlled by buttons on the flanks of the machine, with...
...came just three minutes before the final buzzer when, with the winners ahead 53-51, a questionable foul was called on Dick Covey. Skinner calmly swished two free throws, Columbia held a four-point bulge, and except for another set shot by Skinner, the Lions merely hung onto the ball...
...worst came to worst, Bill DeWitt could always sell some ballplayers or a ballpark-or he could pack up the Browns (and their league franchise) and move them to another city. Since ball clubs began to travel by air, sportwriters have talked about the possibility of moving the franchise to the Pacific coast. Many of them feel sure that St. Louis would not support that much baseball, even if the Browns were a first-division club...
Tireless and amazingly agile for his size, Mikan kept wearing down fresh men sent in to guard him. He gobbled up rebounds from both backboards, made blind passes on the fast break, fed the ball to his teammates from his pivot slot. When the game was over, the Lakers had won a close one (78-76), and Mike Mikan had added 30 more points to his season's total (1,091) while Fulks was picking...