Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage was set for Fred Lynn, wonderful Fred Lynn, everybody's favorite rookie, Fred "it rhymes with win" Lynn. The count ran full, and the fans were dropping like flies in the stands, each and every one the victim of one too many Fenway franks and a belly full of butterflies...
...Steelers' Front Four have begun chewing up opposition quarterbacks, and Oklahoma already seems a sure bet for the Orange Bowl. The nation's ballparks have been invaded by autumn, and the 1975 major league baseball season ought to be over. Not quite. The big games that count most are just about to begin. This weekend the divisional play-offs open with the Pirates playing the Reds in the National League. Oakland, champions in the American League West, had to wait for torrential rains on the East Coast to stop to find out that they would oppose Boston...
...been beaten by Fingers three times during the regular season, retaliated in the sixth. With one out, Yaz doubled halfway up the wall in left field. Fingers worked the count to 3-1 on Fisk before the sturdy Red Sox cleanup man drilled his single to center, sending Yastrzemski home with the tie-breaking...
...dumping Maine, 31-21, in their season opener, the Terriers lost to UNH by blowing an extra point late in the game (an occurrence which shouldn't surprise anyone who watched Harvard kick the ball around the lot last week) and then succumbed to Northeastern by a 20-17 count...
...first generation American, the son of Italian immigrants, who grew to prominence in a period when Americans, and particularly ethnics, perceived of the United States, or at least wanted to, as a land of boundless opportunity. The human interest stories about DiMaggio and his too numerous to count brothers filled the newspapers, alongside stories about Anschluss and Blitzkrieg, giving Americans a sense of apartness, of pride, and of security. The dream still worked over here, no matter what was happening on "the other side...