Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smiled that much; she just gracefully extended her legs over the concrete ledge past the red rail and not even the foul balls--hot white smears that lunged her way after inside pitches--seemed to faze her. There were half a dozen men around her, and a little boy beside her; I was in the eighth row, in a chairback seat. It was the summer of '75, and the Baltimore Orioles were eight games out, but couldn't take their eyes off the high flying Red Sox in first...
Twenty years old, Yount has already completed two big league seasons as a starter. The Boy, as we affectionately titled him after seeing four Brewer games, needed a vacation by late August. We were to see him make another error on a routine play two days later in Anaheim...
...that matter, the Boy's error gave the A's a superfluous run. The three A's pitchers allowed the Brewers only four hits after the first inning. Rollie Fingers, of the 1890's mustache and 1970's rubber arm, put down a mild Milwaukee rally, a one-out single in the ninth, to end the game...
...which then draws it forward and out"; a crystalline day of fishing on a Minnesota lake; brave old houses that shudder at North Dakota blizzards but withstand them. As fondly as an oldtimer, Woiwode, 33, compares the merits of long-forgotten tractor brands (the Hart Parr, Waterloo Boy, Rumley Oil Pull) and stocks a winter larder as it was in the days before home freezers: "The potato bin was full. There were parsnips, kohlrabi, turnips and rutabagas, all dipped in paraffin to preserve them, in other bins, and carrots buried under sand...
...variety series since the Ed Sullivan Show rode out in March 1971-was under way. It lived up-and down-to expectations. Roone Arledge, the hard-driving Barnum of ABC Sports, who developed the latter-day vaudeville along with Cosell, had burbled, "We want people to feel, 'Boy, I better not miss this tonight because Lord knows what will happen.' " But Cosell, master of ceremonies, treated the show as another episode of N.F.L. Monday Night Football. "Look," he said, shrugging, "this is not a meeting between Rabin and Sadat with world peace being in the balance...