Word: laga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...10th with a single and went to second when Bob Stanley (now 0-1) walked Lance Parrish. Steve Crawford took over for Boston and was greeted by Darrell Evans single that scored Gibson to tie it 5-5. Alan Trammell sacrificed the runners up a base each and Mike Laga was given an intentional walk to fill the bases...
...other Grapefruit League action Monday night. Mike Laga hit a two run homer and Chris Pittaro had four hits in five at-bats as the Detroit Tigers outlasted the Philadelphia Phillies...
...deadliest of the mishaps occurred as a chartered Spanish DC-10, fully laden with 380 tourists bound for New York, was racing down the runway of the airport near the seaside resort of Málaga. As the aircraft approached the necessary takeoff speed of more than 180 m.p.h., the plane began to vibrate severely. Pilot Juan Pérez apparently responded by slamming on the brakes, although at that point there is usually neither enough time nor enough room to bring a plane to a safe halt on the runway. Lighting panels dropped from the roof of the cabin...
Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero, who led the assault on parliament last week, commanded Guardia Civil units in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa before he was transferred, in 1977, for refusing to allow the newly authorized Basque national flag to be flown. Posted to Málaga, in southern Spain, he ordered his men to break up a government-authorized leftist demonstration on the ground that "no one is allowed to demonstrate here, because Spain is in mourning [over terrorism]." After his arrest in 1978 for participating in a plot to overthrow the government, he sent a revealing open...
...thought to be dead at birth in Málaga on Oct. 25, 1881. Then his uncle Salvador Ruiz, a celebrated Spanish physician who had delivered the boy, calmly puffed cigar smoke up the baby's nose, provoking howls of protest. Thus did Picasso embark on 91 years of rugged life...