Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived for the past 54 years, he left a half-century-long portrait of the workaday face of America. He had captured it with all the homely honesty of a foursquare realist-but in the lambent light of a brooding romantic who saw beauty in the humblest barber pole...
Mike Davies, a midfielder from Exeter, and defensemen Pete Barber and Bob McDowell also contributed to the team's success. "And Kirby Wilcox -- with 91 saves for the season -- did a real nice job as goalie." Lentz pointed...
...popular notion of a no-hitter is a thing of beauty: a stouthearted pitcher smoking the ball down the alley with laser-beam control. The Baltimore Orioles' Steve Barber, 28, a fastballing lefthander who in six years with the Orioles has compiled an eminently respectable 91-66 won-lost record, almost lived up to that notion three weeks ago. While beating the California Angels 3-0, he rarely allowed a ball out of the infield, walked only three men, and came within two outs of pitching the season's first no-hitter...
With a sigh, Manager Bauer took Barber out and waved in Reliever Stu Miller. The next Detroit batter rapped Miller's first pitch up the middle for an easy third out-except that Second Baseman Mark Belanger dropped the force throw as another Detroit run crossed the plate. Final score: Tigers 2, Orioles 1; thus putting Barber and Miller into the records as the first two pitchers in baseball history to combine on a no-hitter in nine innings and still lose the game. Said Barber wistfully: "Well, if I ever do get another one, I'd like...
Five years ago Dom hung out at Uncle's. Now he is married and has a three-month-old child. It is two years since he took over his step-father's barber shop. Skutchy (drawS...