Word: cincinnatis
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...spring is a season for aging veterans and hopeful rookies, this is a particularly auspicious time for Tom Seaver, who is both. After almost six years in Cincinnati, Seaver is back where he began, with the New York Mets, who promise to be as dreadful as they were when Seaver was a rookie in 1967, the last time they lost 100 games. The question is not whether he will win again at 38, just whether he will pitch well again after a 5-13 year that aged a lot of people a little...
...enjoyable work." He is a devotee of puzzles, particularly the crosswords in the New York Times, and has come across himself on occasion. "Bench's battery-mate." He lets out a laugh, one of his high-pitched cackles. Johnny Bench still toils in Cincinnati, but he's not a catcher any more, and Bench's battery-mate is back in New York City, mostly to drum up customers, maybe to prepare himself for what he considers a "cerebral challenge"-managing...
...letting loose of it even for a day seems important now to Pete Rose, almost 42, bothered by the Phillies' predisposition to rest him occasionally this season. But his dismay is blunted by his happiness at being back in the company of old Cincinnati comrades Joe Morgan, 39, and Tony Perez, 40. Besides, Rose has a plan. "Whenever I'm out of the lineup, I'll drive [Manager] Pat Corrales so nuts he'll have to get me out of the dugout. My edge has always been to play every day, to try to lead...
Minnesota 49, Cincinnati...
...Super teams, the Miami Dolphins and Washington Redskins, hardly seemed super before the game, when the opponents they defeated during the nine-week season were thought less significant than those they avoided in the eight-week strike. Miami missed the Cincinnati Bengals, the Los Angeles Raiders, the San Diego Chargers; Washington skipped the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Bengals, the Texas side of its home-and-away feud with the Dallas Cowboys. By the purest fortune the Redskins had the entire American Football Conference wiped off its slate. In the A.F.C., fit offspring of the old American Football League, the ball flies...