Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a Log. The pain is in the elbow of his wonderful throwing arm, and he first discovered it two years ago. Four mornings after pitching-and winning-a particularly tough game against Milwaukee, he awoke to find his entire arm swollen "like a log, a waterlogged log." Orthopedist Robert Kerlan told Sandy it was traumatic osteoarthritis caused by the unnatural strain of pitching. From time to time, the liquid could be drawn out with a syringe, and the swelling could be reduced by cortisone and other medication. But every time he threw a baseball, the elbow would get worse...
Competition had not even begun at Portillo when disaster hit the U.S. team. Zipping down a slope at 60 m.p.h. in practice, Kidd lost his balance, skittered 200 yds., and snapped both bones in his right leg. Colorado's Jim Barrows injured a knee and an elbow, had to be scratched from the men's downhill; Idaho's Walter Falk fell during the race and suffered a concussion. The bright young star of the women's team, California's 16-year-old Penny McCoy, did give the U.S. one medal - its only one -when...
...boxcar on a railroad siding. The only thing the two-day, ten-event contest has done for California's Bill Toomey, 27, and Russ Hodge, 26, is run up their doctors' bills. Bill suffers from shin splints and heel spurs; Russ has bursitis in his elbow, tendinitis in his knee, and strained ligaments in his ankle...
They could play a mean game of mixed doubles. Papa George, 46, was a promising righthanded baseball pitcher until he injured his elbow and took up tennis-mainly because it was the only one-armed game he knew of. Now he is a lefthanded teaching pro. Mama Betty, 42, is also a pro. Daughter Nancy, 23, shares No. 1 ranking among U.S. women amateurs with Wimbledon Champion Billie Jean King, and son Cliff, 19, is the No. 3-ranked amateur male player...
...week's end Speck was found in a Chicago West Side flophouse bleeding from slashes in his right wrist and left elbow which may have been self-in flicted. Police rushed him to a hospital where the alleged slayer was in serious condition...