Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Carolina, the defending national basketball champion, is rated the No 1 team in the nation in the first weekly Associated Press poll. In fact, North Carolina, Kansas and Kentucky, which finished 1-2-3 in the final balloting last spring, again are ranked in that order...
...George Stubbs, Britain's finest horse painter, turned out landscapes populated with jockeys, grooms, owners and thoroughbred racers that not even hard-riding country squires found it possible to fault. One of Stubbs's best, Gimcrack with a Groom, shows Lord Bolingbroke's small, dark grey champion (27 firsts in 35 starts) being groomed (at left) and winning over the Newmarket course on July 12, 1765 (at right...
...world champion Milwaukee Braves, already heavily stocked with outstanding pitchers, tonight acquired right-handers Bob Rush and Don Kaiser in a five-player deal with the Chicago Cubs...
...wheelchair during tiring rehearsals, batted the breeze with Daughter Ethel Barrymore Colt and some diamond luminaries who later took part in the TV salute-Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, NBC Sport Consultant Leo ("The Lip" ) Durocher, The New York Yankees' crusty Manager Casey Stengel, and the World Champion Milwaukee Braves' Manager Fred Honey...
...reorganizing its rosters, baseball writers were riffling through their memories and replaying the past. Most Valuable Player in the National League, they decided, was Milwaukee Outfielder Hank Aaron. But the vote was as close as the pennant race, and St. Louis' First Baseman Stan Musial, National League batting champion (for the seventh time), finished only 9 points back. Most Valuable Player in the American League: the New York Yankees' bad-legged Outfielder Mickey Mantle (batting average for the season: .365), who limped in 26 points ahead of Boston's Ted Williams (.388) to take the title...