Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oilers, a collection of pot-bellied baseball gypsies and frightened teen-agers, were not especially memorable, but the people did not care. In that little ball park next to the railroad tracks and the The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, the town took on an identity and became as big as New York City--especially on nights when the Oilers, say, had bombarded Onion Davis, the invincible lefthander of the Dothan Browns...
...there were roughly 7,500 jobs open for players in the minor leagues. Today there are only slightly more than 2,000, and most of these go to young chattels of major league clubs who are then replaced by other hopefuls if they do not make it to the big club in three or four years. No longer is there room for the player who does not have big-league possibilities but can do quite well in Class AA for 10 or even 15 years. I listened with incredulity during spring training of 1964 as a major league scout, wearing...
...coal mines," Oravetz said. "My old man couldn't play ball, so he was a coal miner all his life. Now he's blind from working in those mines. That's why you don't catch me bitching too much about not making the big leagues. Hell, I'm lucky...
Lagos is a cosmopolitan city, and like any growing capital, the new and old exist side by side. In one of the open-air markets you bargain; in one of the big department stores you pay a flat rate for a sundae or a sweater. Just a few miles outside the city, the University of Lagos is literally rising out of jungle forest...
...Princeton team is a big unknown. Its record is a strong 4-1 but it hasn't played since a loss October 26 and could be cold after that lay-off. The Tiger freshmen have been rough, though, in recent years. The Yardling booters haven't taken a game at Princeton since...