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...then sat back, and waited and waited, and got beat," Morgan said. "That's the way you get beat. The Orioles didn't get here by quitting, and we didn't either." Baltimore won the fifth game too, 5-4, again with scant help from its finest player, Eddie Murray. He and Mike Schmidt wore the same frown. (All statistics will be rendered meaningless at the outset of World War III.) The Orioles had unloaded their supply of pinch hitters all at once. (If everybody feels they're somebody, you end up with a team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Series of Replacements | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Just seconds earlier, Linda Runyon muffed Harvard's finest scoring opportunity of the afternoon, but now, she had just converted the Crimson's biggest play for the biggest score in the most important game so far this year...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Runyon Sparks Latest 2-1 Triumph, Stickwomen Marching Towards Title | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Evans, who has yet to encounter any serious challenge to her number-one Eastern ranking, handily defeated UVa's nationally ranked finest, Marian Gengler, in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3. Against William and Mary, Evans faltered a bit in the second set but held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Tennis | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...game matched two of the finest pitchers in baseball but it was decided in a battle of home runs. Baltimore's Jim Dwyer, one of the Orioles' platoon players, belted a first inning homer and oldtimer Joe Moral tied in the sixth for the Phillies...

Author: By From WIRE Reports, | Title: Phillies Take Series Opener, 2-1 | 10/12/1983 | See Source »

Lest you think the game was a one-woman show, understand that the entire offense also turned it one of its finest efforts of the year to down the Ithacans. Granted, the Big Red isn't about to dazzle the field hockey world any time soon, but few teams could have stopped the impressive play of Clifton, Bambi Taylor and Andy Mainelli...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Kamikaze Clifton Leads Stickwomen | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

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