Word: harrelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some, it began late Tuesday night, after Gowdy and Garagiola, Stockton and Harrelson, had retired from the airwaves. It began on the gum-stained linoleum floors of Logan Airport's United Airlines terminal, with a sleeping bag or blanket, a six pack, and a homemade banner or an old sheet. The faithful, the hardcore faithful, were there all night...
...most enthusiastic of the parade was Ken Harrelson, who whooped and hollered like a high-schooler who had just won the State Championship and was about to go out with the Homecoming Queen...
...small suggestion for the Red Sox: Put Ken "The Yawn" Harrelson in left field. And throw bats...
...Dodger game?" Soon Vin Scully's "pleasant baritone voice," as Roger Kahn describes it in The Boys of Summer, comes through the earpiece Vin Scully, the best broadcaster in baseball, who doesn't barter in cliches like "That hall had eyes on it" (a favorite of Sox announcer Ken Harrelson), or "You have to get hits to win ball games" (Kubek/Gowdy). Scully coins his own phrases; once when a player was trapped in a rundown and froze for an instant, panic on his face, Scully said, "he looks like a rabbit caught in a set of headlights." And Scully used...
When spectators saw that they and athletes have similar lives, fan involvement increased. The increased fan identification with the players led to the bottle-throwing incident in Shea Stadium during last season's N.L. playoffs. Poor little Bud Harrelson had to be protected from the big brute, Pete Rose, and bottles were a handy weapon...