Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horses broke from the starting gate at New York's Belmont Park for the much-ballyhooed mile-and-a-quarter match race. The contest between the record-breaking three-year-old filly Ruffian, winner in all ten of her starts and holder of the filly's Triple Crown for 1975, and the Kentucky Derby-winning colt Foolish Pleasure was a perfect Him v. Her extravaganza for the 50,764 people at Belmont and for millions watching on CBS, which put up $350,000 to televise the event. Then, 3½ furlongs and some 35 seconds into the race...
...head smells like a 2 a.m. urinal with broken plumbing and I kick dust over it. Briggs and I load it on the front of the van, between the bikes on the bike rack. Thick, greasy and matted, the hair on the skull sticks out like a crown's wig. Twisted slightly down and to the right, the head leers out before us as we drive back to West, blowing long streamers of iridescent bubbles into the Big Sky Country, our windshield catching chunks of rotting flesh and hair...
...also because Yaz symbolizes the moment in history that fuels these expectations. That was 1967 the Impossible Dream pennant, when Yaz hit ...326, with 44 home runs, 121 RBIs, when he seemed to hit the game-winner or catch the game-saver every day. He won the Triple Crown, and was voted the Most Valuable Player in the American League. As Yaz became a near-god in Boston, his name took on an institutional quality. There was Yaz Bread, Yaz Ford, and the Yaz Song...
...rate, Jim Rice has been the Lou Gehrig of the Red Sox this season, an over-shadowed second fiddle to Lynn's Babe Ruth. Winner of the minor league Triple Crown last year with Pawtucket he was expected to be the real star, and in a Lynnless summer he would have been. As it stands, he's hitting almost ...300, and is third in the league in RBIs. Beginning the season as a designated hitter, he's recently moved to left field and has been fielding well...
...look like the coolest competitor around. She acquired a striking outfit that she threatened to wear (but did not) to the Wimbledon ball: Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp costume. Then, having proclaimed this her final major tournament, she defeated Evonne Goolagong Cawley to win her sixth Wimbledon singles crown...