Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...and/or the minors, he is already a polished pro. Never before have the majors enjoyed such a surfeit of sophisticated young pitchers. Even the New York Mets boast the likes of Jerry Koosman (12-4) and Tom Seaver (7-6), whose contribution to last week's All-Star game was striking out five American League batters in two innings...
Miami, Jan. 8, 1969-The Green Bay Packers today defeated the Oakland Raiders 6-0, in the third annual Super Bowl game at Miami's Orange Bowl. The winning touchdown was scored by the Packers' general manager, Vince Lombardi, who took a handoff from Publicity Director Chuck Lane with two minutes to go and scuttled six yards around left end with his aloha shirt flapping. A crowd of 17 fans turned out for the game, which was blacked out on nationwide TV. There was some fear that the game might have to be postponed when beer vendors refused...
...N.F.L. was on strike. After six months of bargaining, the owners of the league's 16 teams had acceded to 21 player demands, including increases in the guaranteed minimum salary (to $12,000 for second-year men, $13,000 for third-year men), payments for preseason exhibition games ($500 per game) and such minor benefits as air conditioning in the training-camp barracks. But on the 22nd point-pensions-negotiations broke down. Determined to show its muscle, the N.F.L. Players Association, headed by Detroit Lions Guard John Gordy, ordered its 600 members not to report to their training camps...
...need a partner either. What Cooke needs is an N.B.A. Championship, so he offered Wilt a five-year contract totaling an estimated $1,500,000. Cooke now owns three superstars: Elgin Baylor, Jerry West and Chamberlain, and the problem may be to get three balls into the game so they can all shoot at once...
Whatever the cause, Negro women resent the pattern, fearing that whites will steal away their most promising young men. Yet most black girls refuse to play the game with white men, who, they say scornfully, lack today's essential Quality of "soul." There is a deeper deterrent too. Many Negro girls say they are still haunted by the image of the white "massa" coming down the hill to take his pick of slave women. Observes Nancy Lou Smith, a svelte 24-year-old Manhattan career girl from Texas: "For many white males, my skin is still a badge that...