Word: games
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening game, Boston College advanced to the finals against Northeastern when goalie Peggy Cameron's 23-save performance buoyed the Eagles to a 4-1 win over Boston University...
...understand what the departure of a Tom Seaver from New York or a Luis Tiant from Boston really means, one must understand the game as Nelson does. Baseball is a regular part of people's lives--not a once-a-week cathartic orgy of violence like football, or a repititious, unemotional sprint like basketball. Baseball strolls into America every spring, a welcome member of the family returned home for an annual visit...
Nelson has the same familial bonds that many baseball fans feel toward their teams. "I'll always be a Mets fan. I don't have to tell you what the most exciting day of sports broadcasting was for me. In that fifth game of the World Series in '69, I thought of what I had gone through with that team. Just before the end of the game, it dawned on me--the New York Mets were going to win the World Series...
...savors that wonderful, old feeling and talks about it with the same earnest enthusiasm he would invoke after a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth of a meaningless August game with the Phillies. Nelson made his love for the Mets as distinct as the not-found-in-nature color of one of his unlimited collection of hideous sport jackets...
Like the banished Jim Woods in Boston, Nelson came with the team, like the stick of gum with a pack of baseball cards--the game of baseball changes and, as inconceivable as a Met season without him sounds, opening day is April 2. It's opening day number 18 for the Mets, the first ever without Lindsey Nelson...