Word: joes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although football Coach Joe Restic never returned a single phone call to me during the fall season, and his secretary refused a request to set up an appointment for me to speak with him, Restic failed to return the calls of any of The Crimson's three football writers. So it wasn't just...
...megasalaries was coming on fast. Though TV was in the wings, radio ruled a fan's life. Teams still traveled by train and, in Halberstam's view, the clubs lost priceless cohesiveness when they boarded airplanes. For these old-timers, alcohol was the prevailing addiction. Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy hectored his players about the evils of drink and then went on benders himself. Kinder, whom Halberstam considers the American League's best relief pitcher of the time, was usually boiled...
...surviving players Halberstam sought out, only Joe DiMaggio turned him down (not even mutual friend Edward Bennett Williams could twist his arm). Yet Halberstam's portrait of DiMaggio is the finest part of the book. The author has a tender, intuitive sympathy for the proud, remote athlete. DiMaggio does not need a writer to confirm his stature, but still he is lucky to have such a thoughtful, intelligent chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans...
CREDIT: TIME Chart by Joe Lertola...
Ciavaglia stuffed in 15 goals--including a hat trick against Lake Superior State in the NCAA quarterfinals--but setting up the shots was his specialty. His 48 assists fell just two short of the Harvard season record set by Joe Cavanagh...