Word: leaguer
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Surfeit of Sophistication. "It began about 1953 in the Little Leagues," says California Angels Shortstop Jim Fregosi. "They started taking all the good athletes and making them pitchers." By the time he is twelve, today's Little Leaguer can cut the corner of the plate with a curve and he has the confidence to throw one on a three-and-two count. When he reaches the majors at an average age of 20, after progressing through the Pony League, high school, American Legion baseball, college and/or the minors, he is already a polished pro. Never before have the majors...
...Case Western Reserve University are flattered by your reference to our institution as a "big-leaguer" and to the facts regarding the federation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University...
Esquire magazine has selected Thomas J. Shields '69, chairman of the Dunster House Committee, as the best dressed man on campus. Shields--the only Ivy Leaguer among the ten chosen--will spend the next week in New York and Washington D. C. trying to predict what fashions will be most popular next year and modeling for Esquire...
That leaves Harvard down in Quaker country, looking for its first win in the Keystone state since 1961. Penn quarterback Bill Creeden completed 15 passes against Harvard last year but has had five below-par games so far this season. Coach Bob Odell is the only Ivy Leaguer among the loop's eight head coaches, but he is one of four who has never beaten Harvard. Both those strings will continue today as the Crimson scores a 21-7 victory...
...American Leaguer got his raise-a fat one-last week. Carl Yastrzemski, the league-champion Boston Red Sox's slugging leftfielder, signed a 1968 contract calling for a $55,000 boost...