Word: elroy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dependable reliever, but their staff is competent and lovable: Woody Fryman is a tobacco farmer, Bob Veale is suing Sport Magazine for a million dollars, "Deacon" Law could be mayor of Pittsburgh or Meridian, Idaho, with no contest, Dennis Ribant is a Met who might make good, Elroy Face ... To understand why baseball will always be the national pastime, tune in the Pirates some night when they're down 3-0 going into the seventh and listen to announcer Bob Prince, the best in the business, root the Buccos on, single by single, as they...
That would eliminate the Cards even if their internal weaknesses didn't. The most serious is the lack of relief pitching, with only Ron Taylor as a candidate for the ElRoy Face role. The Cards unquestionably do have baseball's best infield, but the outfield that held together to bring them the pennant last year has not been proven over a season...
...continues, "can present certain kinds of information with greater precision than a textual record." Quoting the poet and traveller James Elroy Flecker, he reminds us that in a map the historian will find...
...future that their school-aged kids learn terms like "crazy" and "way out" in their ancient-history courses. The Jetsons have a robot maid, a sort of Hazel with gears. Father comes home from work and says he has had a hard day at the button. Little Elroy asks his mother to tell him the story about the cow that degravitated over the moon. The show is silly and unpretentious, corny and clever, now and then quite funny...
...Pirates remain an exciting team, however. All-Stars Roberto Clemente, Dick Groat, and Bill Mazeroski, and relief pitcher Elroy Face rank high among the individual stars of today...