Word: intrasquads
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...football coach John Yovicsin was looking for answers at Saturday's intrasquad scrimmage, he must have come away, as most of the sun-baked spectators did, somewhat disappointed...
...rookie pro, McLain came within one run of making it all the way to the White Sox in the spring of 1963. Unable to choose between Denny and another promising young pitcher, Bruce Howard, Chicago Manager Al Lopez decided to let them fight it out in an intrasquad game. Howard won 2-1 and got the job; McLain was put on waivers and claimed by Detroit for a piddling $8,000, an indignity that triggered the terrible McLain temper. He still gets mad when he thinks about it: "Isn't that a hell of a way to make a decision...
...wrong people looked good Saturday in the intrasquad football scrimmage...
...field, Plimpton did the calisthenics and learned the playbook cold, but when the test came during an intrasquad scrimmage before a large crowd, his reflexes scattered and every play was botched. Along the way, the players came to like him and confide in him, partly because he took their skills as seriously as they did. Their descriptions of the intricacies of the various positions and their special moments of triumph are as authentic as only shoptalk can be. Said a player of the awesome Night Train Lane: "He's got pipes for legs, all bone, with just strings...
...third round of the George H. Breed varsity intrasquad tournament yesterday. Damus moved into a first place tie with Makaitis in sabre. Kolombatovich leads in epee and Mushner in foil...