Word: footedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than three minutes later at the start of the second quarter O'Hiri lined a clear left-footed shot into the upper corner of the goal from the right rim of the circle.
But in the day-to-day grind, it was neither classy fielding, nor reliable pitching, nor booming home runs that assured the Yanks the pennant. Their secret was depth. Manipulating his players with military precision, Rookie Manager Ralph ("The Major") Houk demonstrated an uncanny ability to find the right man...
Hurtling his Cadillac down a serpentine road outside Munich, heavy-footed Cinemactor Horst Buchholz, 27, unwillingly dubbed "the Teutonic James Dean," careened out of control and wrapped the white convertible around a tree. Thrown free and found crawling with one hand to his stomach, the blood-smeared star of Billy...
Such a horse is hard to find. Occasionally, the auctioneer knocks down a real bargain: Sherluck, winner of this year's $148,650 Belmont Stakes, sold as a yearling at Saratoga in 1959 for $10,500. At the same sale, fleet-footed Globemaster, best U.S. three-year-old, was...
Racing's most stirring sight is a full field of fleet-footed thoroughbreds, hooves flying and necks stretched, battling evenly to the wire. But the sight is usually just a fantasy: horses often prefer simply to chase each other's tails. To make the race a better contest...