Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least the two beat out the wacky new comic strip, which tells the ongoing and offbeat saga of three rabbits, one of whom is missing an ear, and perennials Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield in last week's first annual Crimson comic strip poll...
LAST MARCH I was in Kissimmee, Florida watching my beloved Boston Red Sox blow an early lead and lose a spring training game to the Houston Astros. Although I was upset by the way the Sox lost--on a late-inning home run hit off reliever Calvin Schiraldi--I left the stadium excited about the season ahead...
...Hendu has struck out far more often than he has homered. Roger Clemens and Rich Gedman began the season late after holding out for more money. Oil Can Boyd shoulder was hurt. Jim Rice forgot how to hit home runs--much less anything else. Calvin Schiraldi continued to throw meatball pitches right over the plate. The upshot of all this was that the Red Sox were never even in contention, dashing the expectations of fans all over New England...
...defeated the Blue Jays 10-3 to clinch the American League East. On September 28, 1987, they lost to the hated New York Yankees 9-7, giving up six runs in the bottom of the ninth--two of which came on home run hit off a pitch from...Calvin Schiraldi. The loss dropped their record to 74-82 and left the Sox 21.5 games behind the first-place Toronto Blue Jays. For Sox fans, last year's fabulous October, when we set our schedules by the date and time of the next game, seems many long seasons...
When word arrived that Calvin Coolidge was dead, she asked her fellow wits at the Algonquin Round Table, "How can they tell?" When Dorothy Parker died in 1967, nobody doubted that a void had been left in the ranks of major American humorists. Parker's friend and fellow writer Lillian Hellman arranged to have her ashes placed in a New York mortuary. But after Hellman's death three years ago, Parker's remains were moved to a safe in the Manhattan office of her executor, Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, who hoped that someone, possibly a distant relative, might step forward...