Word: elston
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That is, until 1967, the year of the Impossible Dream, and my rookie season in the Harvard professoriat. I loved that pennant race and cheered Boston on (why not, the Yanks were out of it, and one of my New York heroes, Elston Howard, was catching for the Sox). For the first time in my life, I suffered with you through the seventh Series game--though the final result was inevitable (I mean nobody but nobody could beat Bob Gibson, not even Lonborg, especially on two days rest...
...Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Bera and Elston Howard...
Also at Van Conlandt the women's cross country team extended Coach D. Elston Cochrane-Fikes unbeaten string at Harvard to seven with victories over Rutgers, St John's and Georgetown Cochrane-Fikes has not lost an intercollegiate meet since he took over the women harriers last year...
...Stars: Durand Macklin, LSU; Dominique Wilkins, Georgia; Sam Bowie, Kentucky; Ethan Martin, LSU; Elston Turner, Ole Miss...
...DIED. Elston Howard, 51, versatile slugger who was one of the pioneering blacks in baseball's major leagues; of cardiac arrest; in New York City. In 1955, eight years after Jackie Robinson breached the game's color barrier by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers, Howard became the first black to play with the New York Yankees. After 13 seasons with the Yanks and one with the Boston Red Sox, he returned to Yankee Stadium as the American League's first black coach...