Word: championships
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...award-winning orator, the young Keyes was confident of his ability to capture audiences, but wasn't sure his speeches contained the right message. The youngest and the first black to win the American Legion's national public speaking championship, Keyes was only 16 when a synagogue asked him to prepare a reflection...
Boston newspapers called the team "the best Harvard 11 in decades," and hopes were riding high for an Ivy League championship and perhaps even a berth in the Rose Bowl...
...there was more riding on The Game of 1946 than a weekend of parties, an exciting rivalry or even an Ivy League championship. The return of The Game--like the return of official, varsity football altogether-meant a return to the normalcy of the pre-war days...
...throw it farther. If you learn to slide (again like the boys), you have a better chance of stealing a base or catching a ball coming at you. If you pull for one another as a team, you can win. And we did go on to win the championship that season. The feeling of that summer remains with me still...
...glorious childhood summers. I played a lot of tennis, which gave me discipline. For the first time, I experienced the thrill of winning a championship. Then I made the transition to a team sport--softball. By the summer of 1954, when I was 13, the softball team began to shape my sense of self. I played with the West Boulevard Annie Oakleys in the Pigtail League in Cleveland, Ohio. The positive attitude of the coaches--one of whom was George Steinbrenner, then a graduate student--made all the difference: they decided we could win a championship. They also taught...