Word: leaguer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face it," says one broad-vowelled Ivy Leaguer, "the army gets the people who don't have the where--withall--in brains or money--to stay out. The real leadership is avoiding it--no one with any sense would fight of his own free will...
...across the U.S. Conversely, the new competitive scramble for places has driven many Easterners to colleges their parents had never heard of. There has also been a concurrent upgrading of university standards across the country. Stanford and Chicago, Antioch and Duke are the second choice of many an Ivy Leaguer's son. And Westerners' hearts swelled with pride when, in a recent survey of graduate-school faculties, the University of California at Berkeley was rated the "best balanced" in the country, edging out Harvard...
...league. Bouncing out of a brief slump, he banged out two hits in three trips against the Kansas City Athletics, boosted his batting average to .320, and allowed: "I stay lucky, I got a chance to win the title again." If Oliva does, he will be the first American Leaguer to win three straight batting championships since Ty Cobb...
...ball into the rightfield seats. So the next time I went outside with him and he hit the ball 350 ft. into the leftfield stands." Twins Manager Sam Mele says, "I think the kid could hit wearing boxing gloves," predicts that Oliva may yet become the first big-leaguer to bat .400 since Ted Williams-who hit .406 in 1941. "It is a lot of tough to hit .400," says Tony. "But everything is possible here...
Harvard's three hits that inning were a misplayed bunt by Dockery, a liner by Neville that the center fielder played for a triple, and an opposite-field Texas Leaguer by Welz. A walk to Joe O'Donnell and three bad throws were the other key ingredients of the big inning...