Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rationally, football as a game really sucks," Quincy House athletic secretary and intramural tackle football coach Gary Bravo commented in the Dillon locker room after his squad played Leverett to a scoreless tie. "But the irrational part of me loves it. I guess it's power--you go out and knock people over." Bravo paused for a few reflective seconds before a strange gleam glossed over his eyes and he added, "I really get into sacking the quarterback...
...personal statistics. Now I think about what it means to me being part of the team. I make a real contribution. I play on the demo squad, I chart plays during the game and I keep guys loose by kidding around with things like my Elvis imitation in the locker room," he said...
...manager caused any dissension, his salary could be withheld, a contract Martin soon sharply resented. From the very beginning of the year, Steinbrenner hovered over his manager, offering unwanted advice, badgering him. Their confrontations were often stormy. One night after a difficult Yankee loss, Steinbrenner called the locker room to pass on some advice to his smoldering manager, and Martin-while the owner was still speaking-ripped the phone out of the wall...
...attack Jackson-was seen on national television. Steinbrenner, astonished by the outburst, was set to fire Martin, then decided against it. He felt it would destroy both Jackson and the team. As for Martin, he viewed the incident as the turning point of the Yankee season. "I won my locker room back," he said. "Jackson cost this club a lot of games this year. He's a decent, smart man, but he's baseball dumb...
...their next 50 games. Jackson, his spirit at last lifted by batting fourth, drove in 49 runs. But even that did not satisfy the outfielder of the powerful shoulders and the tender ego. At the end of the season Jackson stood in the corner of the locker room and said: "I wouldn't wish what happened to me here on anybody." He had already told Steinbrenner he would refuse to play another season for Martin, no small dilemma for the owner...