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Word: balled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tailback in high school. In that part of the country, football's really wild. We had a great team, and huge guys, and we ran all over everybody. My senior year I carried the ball something like 308 times...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Say It Ain't So, P. Wayne | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

Soccer coach George Ford: "If I had a dime for every time I said 'We couldn't put the ball in the net,' I could buy Pele and never have to say it again...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Bed Sheets to the Wind | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...beat them today because we played really smart ball," said jubilant co-captain Sue St. Louis after the women's varsity soccer team crushed Smith 6-1. The win upped the booters' record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Roll Over Smith, 6-1 | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...says leaning back and gesticulating as though he were teaching a class. He goes on. "You know, the interesting thing about baseball is that it engages the individual in a team sport which is profoundly reliant on the individual. Not like football where you can't tell where the ball is. It's clear where everything is in a baseball field, you can see it. And you're there alone, but you're part of the group. When you're the offense, as it were, you're the most alone and when you're on the defense...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Giamatti at Yale: Professor Turns President | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...John's vaunted sinkerball which produced 18 ground ball outs, including three double plays, that allowed the L. A. outfielders a day of rest. Philadelphia's impotent playoff bats managed only four hits and two outfield putouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Blanks Phils Dodgers Two Up | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

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