Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CINCINNATI--Pete Rose won in court yesterday when a state judge, saying A. Bartlett Giamatti had "prejudged" the case, blocked the baseball commissioner from holding a hearing on evidence that the Cincinnati Reds manager bet on his team...
They usually tell you to go to Wordsworth (30 Brattle St.) And, actually, if you are looking for something specific, that's your best bet. It's cheaper, and there is a good selection. The store itself is sort of confusing--books are kept in sections that don't always make sense--but it is computerized, so just ask for help...
...race is not always to the swift. The battle is not always to the strong. But that's the way to bet...
Since the celluloid Gipper has repaired to California and the call to win things for him has happily left the language, maybe it is not too impolite now to remember that the real George Gipp of Notre Dame was a low-life gambler who openly bet on his own football games and everything else from cards and craps to flies landing on sugar cubes. Gipp seldom attended class and only occasionally graced football practice. The sentimental writer Red Smith, a Notre Dame man himself, used to refer to the great dead hero as "the patron saint of eight-ball pool...
When golfer Lee Trevino was leading this year's Masters tournament, he proclaimed to a press assembly, "If a man had walked up to me and bet I couldn't break 76, I wouldn't have taken a quarter of the bet. And I'm a gambling man." As the New York Yankees began the baseball year in a slump, owner George Steinbrenner pledged that manager Dallas Green would last the entire season. As he put it, "If you want to go out and make a bet . . ." Given Steinbrenner's way with managers, cordons of nuns might have burst from...