Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over a downtown thoroughfare. The program, which scattered parks and swimming pools all over town, also financed the $59.8 million stadium that Kingdome, a covered stadium that literally made Seattle a big-league city. It is the home of the Seahawks (football), the Sounders (soccer) and the Mariners (base ball). Already 3.7 million fans have crowded into the Kingdome, though it has been open only 21 months...
...outclassing all the others. With humor, psychology, basic physics, clear diagrams and multiple-exposure pictures by John G. Zimmerman, Braden demolishes many long-cherished (and totally wrong) notions about tennis strokes and strategy. Readers are left with what is probably their first clear insight into why that elusive, fuzzy ball, and the opponent on the other side of the net, behave as they do. Braden's inspiring message to the 99.9% of the population who are not superjocks: "If you can walk to the drinking fountain without falling over, you have the physical ability to play this game pretty...
DIED. Bob Meusel, 81, strong-armed outfielder and member of the Yankees' famed "Murderers' Row"; in Downey, Calif. Former Manager Casey Stengel said he "never saw a better thrower" than Meusel, who also hit the ball pretty well (lifetime average: .309 over eleven seasons). In 1927, with Leftfielder Meusel hitting .337, Centerfielder Earle Combs .356 and Rightfielder Babe Ruth .356 plus 60 home runs, the Yankees had what many students of the game consider the best outfield in baseball history...
...where the others fail because Fred Silverman, the network's programming whiz, knows that audiences want to see characters on the tube. The people on ABC are often cartoon figures, but their outlines are filled in by talented and at times magnestic performers. Like Jackie Gleason and Lucille Ball before them, Henry Winkler and Laverne & Shriley's Penny Marshall can transform rampant silliness into laughter...
...Lack of scoring distribution hurt us," Kleinfelder said. She added, "We can't have one or two people doing all the scoring and expect to win. Teams key on Caryn [Curry] or the other person who's shooting, and the four people who are open do not get the ball. And overall, they just out-hustled...