Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the nation need not be too disappointed, however, as they watch Californians basking in the 70-degree weather and drinking their Coors. A Dodger-Athletics matchup is the best possible exhibition of baseball talent...
...Dodger pitching staff led by Don Sutton, Andy Messersmith, Al Downing and Mike Marshall, the National League's best reliever, form the core of baseball's best pitching staff. An opposing batter must get the same feeling as a man sitting in a tank facing a bazooka: he doesn't have a chance...
...Dodgers blasted the Pirates 12-1 for the largest margin in playoff history. Steve Garvey smashed two homers to pace the 12-hit Dodger attack...
...Dodger ace Don Sutton stopped Pittsburgh on four hits on Saturday as Los Angeles won, 3-0. The Pirates bowed to the Western Division champs again on Sunday, 5-2. The series resumes on Tuesday in Los Angeles...
These manglings of Gaelic were once the common language of Brooklyn cabbies, policemen and longshoremen -not to mention baseball fans. One linguistically memorable day at Ebbets Field in the 1930s, when Dodger Pitcher Waite Hoyt was hit by a ball, a spectator jumped up on the bleachers and shouted out, "Hurt is hoyt!" Over the years, as they grew more prosperous, New York's Irish scattered into the affluent suburbs. Blacks and Puerto Ricans have all but taken over such areas as Williamsburg (formerly Williamsboig) and Greenpoint (Greenpernt) in northern Brooklyn, where Brooklynese was born. At the same time...