Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Courier reporters, humorous suggestions of that nature are less significant than the fact that whites are paying attention to the paper. Former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark once cracked, "I don't see how one goddam Red newspaper can be so yellow." Later, he said that the Courier news columns had treated him fairly during his term of office...
...years since Britain's Roger Bannister opened the floodgates by running a 3-min. 59.4-sec. mile, no fewer than 84 athletes have cracked the mythical 4-min. "barrier"-running a total of 278 sub-4-min. miles. Tops among them, of course, is Jim Ryun, the University of Kansas junior who at 20 is already the fastest middle-distance runner of all time. Last month in Bakersfield, Calif., Ryun lowered his own world record for the mile to 3 min. 51.1 sec. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles, he zipped through 1,500 meters-120 yds. short...
...Ryun and possibly this season. Track Coach Bill Bowerman, who has turned out nine sub-4-min. milers at the University of Oregon, predicts that Ryun may lower the record all the way to 3 min. 45 sec. before he is through. But hardly anybody thinks that will give Jim any permanent place in the record book. Advances in nutrition, training methods, equipment, medicine and psychology undoubtedly will produce even faster runners than Ryun. The man who started it all, Roger Bannister, now 38 and a London neurologist, believes a 3-min. 30-sec. mile is in the offing...
McGlothlin's 1967 showing qualifies as a comeback-although he is only 23. When he was 18, Jim tried out with the Los Angeles Dodgers, struck out twelve of the 13 men he faced-and never heard from the Dodgers again. The Angels finally signed him for $5,000 (which he blew on a new car), and he trotted off to Illinois-Iowa's Quad-Cities Angels in the Class A Midwest League, where he won 13 games, lost five and posted an ERA of 2.79. After that, it was all downhill. Twice, the Angels called...
McGlothlin's latest turnabout began last year when he was farmed back down to Seattle, where he caught the eye of Bob Lemon, onetime star pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. Jim went to Seattle with an overhand fastball, a nickel curve, and simplistic notions about strategy: if the bases were loaded and the count was 3 and 2, he threw the next pitch low and away. At least nobody ever hit him in a spot like that. Lemon taught him how to throw a sidearm fastball, a slider and a change of pace, and he also taught McGlothlin something...