Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. The cosmos is an intricate baseball game, or is it vice versa, in this entertaining allegory about an accountant who destroys himself when he relinquishes reality for illusion...
...Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
...need for improved expressways, bridges, air-pollution controls, airport facilities, and the roads and devices that will make congested city traffic move more rapidly. Recreational facilities are in short supply because everyone underestimated the combined impact of increased leisure time and higher disposable income; to tee off for a game of golf on weekends has become a long and frustrating process, as many golfers can attest...
...this year. In one of the dullest seasons in years-with the result that attendance is down 5% from 1967 -neither league can lay claim to anything remotely resembling a pennant race. In the National League last week, the St. Louis Cardinals were coasting along with a steady 61-game lead; in the American, the Detroit Tigers were an even brighter prospect with an eight-game bulge...
...players are charging," says Mickey Stanley. "Every day, it is somebody else who gets the job done. That may sound like 'High School Harry,' but that's the case." In one game against the second-place Cleveland Indians last week, Northrup forgot his aching knee long enough to clout a brace of grand-slam homers and tie a big-league record.* In another, it was Dick Tracewski, a .170 batter, who hit a game-winning homer to beat the Indians 4-1. "Now I have nothing to look forward to for the rest of the year," said...