Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lynn approaches the plate. Lynn has the prettiest swing in baseball and a grace in centerfield that evokes DiMaggio, at least for those who remember that inspired Yankee Centurion. It's hard to capture the feeling of exaltation a player like Lynn can create, how he can--man versus ball--extend the horizons of human potential, at least during the brief span of a game. Lynn spent most of the year in pursuit of the Triple Crown, and he's a fair bet for the Most Valuable Player award, though it might go to either Ken Singleton of the Orioles...
...ladies press devotional circulars on the crowd, urging them to visit Bayside, N.Y., "The Lourdes of America." Bayside, apparently, is run by a seer named Veronica Leucken. Her pamphlet includes a plea to the Pope to "convert Russia" and to "save the world from the great flames of the Ball of Redemption that fast approaches." She also inveighs against communion by hand...
With 1:56 left on the clock, speedy forward Cat Ferrante tapped a bounding ball into position for Sue St. Louis who blasted a 20-yd. shot past the outstretched UConn goalie Sue Proctor, to record the margin of victory...
More than an hour and a half earlier Ferrante and St. Louis had combined for the first Harvard score with the roles reversed. St. Louis went deep into the right corner to recover the ball and head it into the middle. The waiting Ferrante brought the ball quickly under control and pushed off a left-footed groundshot that grazed the goalpost on its way in for a score...
Center halfback Jeanne Piersiak continues to be a bright spot. The tenacious freshman from Needham played as though she owned every mud puddle on the field. Darting about with reckless abandon, Piersiak slid in the mud several times in successful attempts to regain possession of the ball...