Word: laker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until he cradles the ball in his huge hands does the poker-faced Negro come alive. Then, graceful and cunning as a cougar, Elgin Baylor begins to roam for the Minneapolis Lakers. His hands flicker with the slick skill of a shell-game operator. His dribble is a rapid rat-a-tattoo inches off the floor. Smoothly, surely, Baylor prowls through the elbowing surge under the hoop to nail a Laker with a pinpoint pass, or rises from the floor as though projected to loop a lazy shot through the basket...
...York's balanced scoring attack defeated Minneapolis 109-106 yesterday despite Laker Dick Garmaker's tying of three National Basketball Assn. records...
...intend to pursue a legitimate career in physical education, sport administration, press, radio, etc." Just when aspiring pros became illegitimate, Brundage did not say. ¶ Spinning the ball with a vicious kick off the pock-marked turf of Manchester's Old Trafford cricket pitch, England's Jim Laker had Australian batsmen making the long walk to the wicket as if it were a short walk to the gallows. In the deciding match of the Test series, he skittled out the Aussies (taking nine wickets in the first innings, all ten in the second). The first man ever...
...after Washington's American League opening game was rained out, the newly named "Redlegs" lost to the newly resettled (from Boston to Milwaukee) Braves, 2-0, as the 1953 baseball season officially got under way. ¶ln Manhattan, after losing the first game of the playoff, the Minneapolis Lakers whipped the New York Knickerbockers four straight for the National Basketball Association championship the fourth Laker title in five years iln Pocatello, the Idaho State boxing team, with the aid of its Olympic boxer, Ellsworth ("Spider") Webb, won the N.C.A.A. title from Wisconsin, 25-19 ¶ At Bowie...