Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jogging or simpler racquet sports. In fact, some of the nation's 11,000 indoor tennis facilities, which cost about $165,000 a court to build, have converted their underused courts to racquetball. It is a tennis-like game that employs a bigger racquet and a slower ball and, its promoters hope, may be more easily mastered by the nation's millions of would-be Everts and Borgs...
...Rice form one of the most powerful duos in baseball history. "It's gotta be the strongest one-two punch since Maris and Mantle," says Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver. Batting third and fourth in the Red Sox lineup, Lynn, 27, and Rice, 26, have been pounding the ball so hard and often that, astonishingly enough, both have a good shot at winning the Triple Crown (leading the league in hitting, homers and runs-batted-in). Last week Lynn was first in hitting with a .347 average, while Rice was second at .335. Lynn's 36 home runs also...
Lynn has always been a solid hitter, and his classic, fluid swing stirs memories of Ted Williams. What is different about Lynn this year is that he has become a long-ball hitter. Though he won Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player honors in 1975, the first man ever to accomplish that in the majors, Lynn had never hit more than 22 home runs until this season. He attributes his increased production to a rigorous body-building program he underwent last winter in an effort to build up his strength and stamina. Says he: "There are no great...
...uniformed staff of 150. But then the Dakota was no more extravagant than the age in which it was built. Although the building looked out over a vista of squatters' shacks in Central Park, society's reigning Four Hundred might spend $200,000 on a single ball...
...more absorbing because of the methods used by both sides: the law bending the law, the mob making a farce of it. The area's top don, whom Wainwright is out to get despite his non-involvement in the case, roves free as a boccie ball. King Kong, among others, is appropriately retired by his own associates. Amazingly, Richie Flynn comes out a little wealthier and healthier, though back to selling booze...