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...time defending champion lightweight varsity four held the lead over the contending University of Cincinnati crew throughout most of its race until severe equipment problems arose at the 1000-meter mark and allowed Cincinnati (7:21.9) to cross the finish line ahead of the Black and White...
Radcliffe was ahead off the start and gained on Cincinnati at 500 meters. At the halfway point of the race, the lights were a length up on the other crew, but then bow-seat Jenny Honig's oarlock broke and the Black and White's rivals moved up and through the lights in the last 500 to win its first lightweight Sprints title...
...more than the Dodgers and Reds. And how -- not how many -- was the real distinction. In the front office and on the field, Baltimore played the game smartly, happily and hard and, from 1966 on, to win titles. That was the year Robinson first came over from Cincinnati to show them...
...known as a lethal base runner and horrible loser, Robinson was considered a little volatile. One famous night at a diner, he showed a pistol to a quarrelsome cook who was directing Robinson's attention to a meat cleaver. The lithe outfielder -- marked down as "an old 30" by Cincinnati management -- was dispatched to Baltimore, where that watershed summer he hit .316 with 122 runs batted in and 49 homers, not including the one that won the Orioles' first World Series. Over the five prosperous seasons that followed, his competitive values became imprinted in the Baltimore clubhouse, and they heralded...
...George Foster of the Cincinnati Reds hit 52 homers in 1977. Yankees Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were the last American Leaguers to reach the half-century mark in 1961. Maris hit 61 and Mantle clubbed...