Word: jim
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Black Maxes. "We haven't got a sane guy on this ball club," Pirate Catcher Jim Pagliaroni announced proudly-and it was not an insane thing to say. Pagliaroni's off-duty attire includes a leather World War I aviator's helmet and goggles. El Roy Face, the Pirates' No. 1 relief pitcher, struts around in a buccaneer's hat, complete with skull and crossbones. Starting Pitcher Steve Blass sometimes forgets he has a glove; last week he fielded two hot grounders barehanded and broke a bone. Outfielder Willie Stargell has trouble ordering in restaurants...
...Stars were strangers, of course. Donny ("Do Everything") Anderson, a triple-threat halfback from Texas Tech, had signed a $600,000 contract with Green Bay, and Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski was a $300,000 Packer bonus baby. If anything, that only made it harder on them; the Packers were in no mood to play favorites-particularly with rich rookies who soon would be trying to take their jobs away...
...mistake. On the very first play from scrimmage, Alabama Quarterback Steve Sloan fumbled the ball, Lionel Aldridge recovered for Green Bay, and Packer Quarterback Bart Starr flipped an 11-yd. touchdown pass to End Boyd Dowler. After that, the only question was how big the score would be. Fullback Jim Taylor scored two TDs for the Packers, Starr threw for still another, and alert Green Bay defenders picked off two passes...
Above all, L'Équipe is thorough. To cover the World Cup soccer tournament, which ended last week in England (see SPORT), the paper sent over 13 reporters, three cartoonists and four photographers. When U.S. Miler Jim Ryun recently set a new world record in Berkeley, Calif., L'Équipe ran his picture on the front page under a banner headline; inside, the paper devoted the better part of a page to a description of his feat, and postrace interviews with Ryun and ex-Record Holders Michel Jazy and Roger Bannister. "I doubt," boasts L'Équipe...
...decathlon made Jim Thorpe the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull. It won Glenn Morris a job playing Tarzan in the movies. It turned Bob Mathias, a 17-year-old high-schooler, into a national hero, and it earned a college education for a Negro lad named Rafer Johnson whose family were so poor that they lived in a boxcar on a railroad siding. The only thing the two-day, ten-event contest has done for California's Bill Toomey, 27, and Russ Hodge, 26, is run up their doctors' bills. Bill suffers from shin splints...