Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baseball Writers Association of America will announce Tuesday the result of its unprecedented Hall of Fame vote for the late Roberto Clemente...
Under Association rules, a player is not eligible to appear on the Hall of Fame ballot until five years after he has completed his baseball career. The only player ever to reach the Hall of Fame before the five-year waiting period was Lou Gehrig, the late first baseman of the New York Yankees, who died of a terminal disease...
...Invisible Man. James Whale, of "Frankenstein" fame, directed this adaptation of the H.G. Welles Sci-Fi classic...
Steve's only claim to fame is last year's Yale game, when Cleary thrust him in halfway through the game and he preserved a slim Harvard lead under pressure. This season he's played in eight contests and allowed five goals. In all of the games Harvard was either way ahead or too far behind to make any of these goals matter...
...winning in the classroom. If he chooses the classroom (which he must, for Harvard gives no Lab-Credit for the hundreds of hours a player spends in the IAB) a player must sacrifice a game he has devoted his entire life to perfecting; a game that may bring him fame and fortune unparalleled in our society by even a degree in Law. The decision that such a "big-time" program forces a player at an Ivy League institution to make is unfair, for he must lose no matter how he turns. The "big-time-basketball" experiment has failed at Harvard...