Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AIRLINE PASSENGERS will get a wider choice of fares and flight services, if CAB approves examiners' recommendation. United Air Lines plans a fourth type of service, "custom coach," pegged between first-class and cut-rate (day and night) coach flights, which would match flight times of best first-class flights but stand lower in passenger "extras" and price...
...just about worn out. They had beaten their way across country for a month, had played and won eleven games from Texas to Kentucky. Now they faced the Little League World Series, and they were scheduled to start against some sturdy youngsters from Bridgeport, Conn, at 2:30 p.m. Coach César Faz studied his skinny, undersized squad (averaging 4 ft. 11 in., 92 lbs.), saw all the signs of fatigue and made a reasonable request. "That's when my boys usually take a siesta," he said. "Can't they play in the second game...
...program was already printed. The request was refused. All Coach Faz could do was arrange a special schedule of his own: he woke his kids (all twelve or under) at 7:30, had them ready for a nap by 11 o'clock and up again in time for the game. Properly refreshed, they beat Bridgeport in the semifinal...
...final game against La Mesa, Calif, (a team that averaged 5 ft. 4 in., 127 lbs.), Coach Faz tried something far more spectacular than extra sleep. He called on his best pitcher, ambidextrous Angel Macias, a twelve-year-old 88-pounder with a fine assortment of curves and sliders, plus a plain, old-fashioned fast ball under disciplined control. Against Bridgeport, Angel had played a flawless game at shortstop. He can, in fact, play any position on the team-becomes a southpaw on first base, a righthander in the rest of the infield, whatever he happens to feel like when...
...fading Cards and Dodgers. The only question left: Who among the rundown also-rans will stumble home second? ¶ At a boozy boosters' banquet during which he was supposed to tell Detroit sports fans how his Lions were going to win back the professional football championship, Lion Coach Buddy Parker suddenly switched signals and announced: "I've got a situation here I can't handle any more. These ballplayers have gotten too big for me, or something. I'm getting out of Detroit football." Finally convinced that Buddy was not kidding, the Lion management sent...