Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...league and most of the little men. That combination, plus his aw-shucks, farm-boy manner, made Mighty Mick an instant folk hero. In his first 14 seasons, he led the Yankees to a remarkable twelve pennant victories, won the Most Valuable Player award three times and the triple crown once, in 1956, when he batted .353, slammed 52 home runs and drove in 130 runs. His lifetime mark of 536 homers ranks only behind Babe Ruth's 714 and Willie Mays...
...peculiarly wrong. The costuming, for example. Here are courtiers with crushed-velvet and tapestried robes draped over business suits, rather like Supreme Court Justices on a Broadway sabbatical. Hamlet, on the other hand, affects a black leather jacket. He appears to be missing his motorcycle rather than his plundered crown. The ghost of Hamlet's father seems to have raided a bird sanctuary for his outfit; he looks like a huge quivering snowy...
...battle for first went down to the final weekend of Ivy play. Princeton edged Columbia, 60-59, to wrap up the crown, and then the Lions upended Penn, 69-59, to earn the second spot...
Murphy turned in another excellent performance in the diving, easily out-pointing his Eli opponents. On the basis of his diving this season, Murphy is the favorite to recapture the three-meter crown at the Eastern Seaboards next weekend at Yale...
Yale has already clinched its eighth Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League crown in the last ten years, and today's meet should serve mostly as a springboard to upcoming national tournaments. The Crimson has lost two league meets and will probably complete its season with a 5-3 record for a fourth-place finish...