Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began when the Detroit Tigers drafted Wolff in June of his junior year, even though in two seasons at Harvard he hadn't earned a varsity letter, and had only been at bat a total of six times...
...whole affair had political overtones. Not only is Jackson seeking the presidential nomination, but his campaign manager in Michigan is Frank Kelley, the state's attorney general, who may be running for the Senate next year. To the Detroit News, the whole affair seemed very peculiar indeed. Declared an editorial: "When Kelley and Jackson tell us they see nothing political about all this, we wince in embarrassment for them. The only question is: How far will they go? Will they, for example, insist on being photographed beside the body, if it's found, like big-game hunters beside...
False Report. Kohn and Weir are not just any run-of-the-city-room journalists. Kohn, 28, once a prizewinning investigative reporter for the Detroit Free Press, was fired by the paper in 1973 for fabricating a story about his own alleged kidnaping; he pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of filing a false police report and was given six months' probation. Weir, 28, feature editor of a slick investigative magazine called Sun-Dance before its demise in 1972, wrote the article that exposed Acid King Timothy Leary as a police informer, discrediting him in the eyes...
...started a game since Sept. 19 in Detroit, was brought out of the bullpen for several reasons, Johnson said...
...remember how Gowdy had a fit over rookie phenom Fred Lynn on the Monday nightbroadcast from Detroit on June 16. That was the night he broke his hitting streak, but it turned out to merely be a rest as he belted three homers and missed another by a foot and racked up ten RBIs the next night. Boston fans already knew how good Lynn was, but Gowdy dutifully informed the rest of the world...