Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former Twins coach, Martin took charge this spring and demanded the hustling, hurry-up style of baseball that made him famous in his playing days with the New York Yankees. His team has already reeled off more double plays (128) than it did all last season. He urges speedsters like Carew and Outfielder Cesar Tovar to use their legs more often. The result: 16 stolen bases for Carew, 30 for Tovar. One day in May, Carew completely shattered the Detroit defense by stealing second, third and home in the span of seven pitches. Martin insists that stealing home, despite...
...METAPHOR which playwright Ronald Ribman has made the title of his play is not an original one. Long before him, Turgenev had likened the lives of some men to the futile effort, the useless suffering, of a fifth horse hastily harnesses to a coach and four. All its striving, the tether lacerating its back as it strains forward, is pointless...
...just don't feel like playing any more," he wrote. "If I continued to play, I'd become a mercenary because I'm not involved any more." That is how Bill Russell, player-coach of pro basketball's champion Boston Celtics, announced his retirement in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED last week. By giving up his coaching job ("that prime incubator of ulcers") and his $250,000-a-year contract, Russell ends a career in which he helped the Celtics to eleven championships in 13 seasons. Russell says he is now considering a career in "the field of entertainment...
Under the direction of the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare, the national pilot team was set-up in Boston in August, 1968. Consisting of five members, each WIN group includes a counselor, a manpower specialist, a coach and a work and training specialist...
Customers obviously enjoy buying Mutual of New York policies from former Boston Celtics Ace K. C. Jones, now head basketball coach at Brandeis University; he has earned membership in the insurance industry's "Million-Dollar Round Table." Maury Wills, the Dodgers' speedy shortstop, does a brisk business at his six Stolen Base Cleaners in the Los Angeles area; he is currently expanding the chain into a nationwide franchise operation...