Word: feat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaking of great NL pitchers, there's always Mr. Gooden, owner of a 24-4 record and a 1.53 ERA last year. But perhaps the most amazing stat of Dr. K's '85 campaign was accomplished in his last nine starts. Ten points if you can identify that feat...
...that year) and Denny McLain (the last 30-game winner at 31-4 that year). To no one's surprise, one pitcher won three games in the series that ended with the Tigers triumphing, four games to three. To everyone's surprise, though, the pitcher accomplishing this rare feat was neither Gibson or McLean. Ten points if you can identify that pitcher...
...crowns in the mid 60's when Frank Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski turned the trick in 1966 and '67, respectively. But the National League hasn't seen a triple crown winner in a much longer time. Ten points if you can name the last NL player to accomplish that feat...
...kind of effort which led to Ohno's great prowess as a high school athlete. He lettered three consecutive years in baseball, soccer and hockey. His high school hockey team qualified for the state tournament each of his three years and won the tournament his junior year--no mean feat in a hockey-crazed state...
...travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world to a new kind of architecture--even more extraordinary. It was intended by the German government to clean up the country's image internationally, to be a quintessentially modern thing, stripped of gemutlich nostalgia. It was meant to deny history, and Mies complied...