Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the great centers have trudged anonomously. Stolid, meaty behemouths, their senses grow dulled by thousands of slaps to the head, delivered in the split-second of vulnerability while they shovel the ball to the quarterback...
...unlikely--things being what they are--but the MVP should really go to Earl Weaver, manager of the Baltimore Orioles. Singleton said that without Weaver the Orioles would be playing .500 ball. The biggest cliche of the 1979 season is that the Orioles are a good team having a great season, and the difference is Weaver. After all, the team doesn't have a single .300 hitter, and, for all the talk of great pitching, only one real stopper--Mike Flanagan...
...tickling each other. The peristaltic motion. And as if in celebration of the girls' new-found progenitive capacity and the spirit of hopeful spring, the Sox rally to tie it in the sixth. Dwyer hits a double, Allenson a single. Sizemore hits what looks like a sure double-play ball, but Allenson comes into the keystone like a cruise missile. Dwyer scores. Bang. An inning later Butch Hobson hits his 28th homer over the Green Monster with Fisk on base. It looks like the game is on ice, except that Don Zimmer has decided to unleash the awesome firepower...
...halfback Frank RiCapito, the contest had not yet ended. He pranced on the now-empty field, juggling the ball from one foot to the other, between the legs of the last Connecticut defender, and into the net for the score--or so he imagined...
RiCapito's strengths are his speed and ability to "mark" opposing players as they approach the Harvard goal. Without necessarily touching the ball, he must prevent attackers from roaming freely in his territory...