Word: lineup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...losing more games (120) than any other team in the history of modern major-league baseball. They had their laughs, though-like the time "Marvelous Marv" Throneberry walloped a triple and failed to touch either first or second base. But all that was going to change this year. The lineup was full of fierce young rookies, Oldtime Slugger Duke Snider (389 lifetime homers) was on hand from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Mets' owner, Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, felt pretty optimistic. "I simply cannot stand 120 losses this year," she said. "If we can't get anything...
...With only one foreign correspondent-Newbold Noyes's Paris-based brother Crosby-the Star cannot hope to match the 14 foreign correspondents who write for the Post, but the new editor plans to develop a team of "regional specialists." To match the Post's editorial-page lineup, Noyes is looking for fresh columnists. He has already bought the Manchester Guardian's Max Freedman away from the Post...
Coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson squad brings a much-revised lineup into the Penn match. Two varsity players dropped test matches last week; number six man Dean Peckham lost in straight sets to Sandy Walker, who has played impressively all spring, and Vic Niederhoffer dropped Frank Ripple from the number two spot in a three-set match...
...today's match should provide a good test of the Crimson's brand-new doubles lineup. Captain Paul Sullivan and Chum Steele will be playing their first college match together at number one doubles. Sullivan and Steele beat Frank Ripley and Vic Niederhoffer in a challenge match for the number one doubles position earlier this week...
Competition for the lower spots on the team has kept the bottom half of the Crimson lineup on top of its game. In matches yesterday, Sandy Walker beat basketball star Bob Inman to take over the number seven position, and John Vinton, number nine, stretched sixth-ranked Dean Peckham to three sets before losing...