Word: games
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zimmer is smiling his paunchy smile these days, nervously. He sees his team only 3 1/2 games out of first place; the Yankees are an even 10 games behind the Orioles, and the resurrection of Billy Martin has not guaranteed New York its 1979 baseball kingdom. But still, there are lingering afterthoughts of the Red Sox in 1978, of that awesome 14 game lead at the beginning of September...
Fisk's nonchalance is reflective of a new trend on the Sox, a feeling this ball club has not had for a long time. They're loose. They're not getting too excited, and this year, many of the players are apt to pick up a card game in the clubhouse instead of a newspaper...
...surprise when he asserts that "all sports are psychological, but some are more psychological than others. And tennis is the most." Assuming that his readers have the basic tennis skills (no amount of "inner" therapy will compensate for their absence), the doctor outlines the problems of this heady game...
...audience will bear." In contradiction to what one may feel during the heat of a match, the author suggests that risks should be taken only when losing. For example, when serving at 0-30 take a chance; your opponent already has a great advantage with 50% of the game points. But when ahead 30-0 play it safe. Most points are won on errors, not winning shots. Gologor covers a lot of psychological ground: the aggression behind politesse, the times when anger and guilt are useful, the devastating aftereffects of missed opportunities. His courtside manner is casual and unintimidating...
...letter-writing idols, delighted post-World War I readers, who wanted to hear the dirt about the people who had brought on the disaster. Strachey was imitated throughout the '20s and '30s and, wrote Bernard De Voto, "biography seemed to be no more than a high-spirited game of yanking out shirttails and setting fire to them." That game is over. In the past generation the best biographers have righted the balance, creating what approaches a fresh and vigorous art form...