Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: William and Mary players returned to their locker room to find their wallets, watches and jewelry missing. University police are still investigating the theft...
...Royals' pride. Willie Wilson, who this season became only the second player to get 100 hits both left- and righthanded while averaging .326, suffered the cruelest fate. His Series-ending strikeout set a new record for whiffs (twelve). Brett, ey ing Wilson's empty locker after the leftfielder had fled to the showers, sympathized with his teammate: "Willie did things this year no player has ever done before, but this is what people will remember, the strikeouts...
Assured of a top front-office job when he leaves the dugout, Rookie Manager Dallas Green pointedly informed his players that they had better get fired up because he could not be fired. Green delivered a full-throated locker-room harangue in early August that blistered paint and pride behind the locked clubhouse door. A number of Phillies muttered mutinously, but they won games in September for a change, finally clinching the division title with one game left in the season. After five tortuous playoff games, four of them extra-inning struggles of exquisite suspense, the Phillies extinguished the Houston...
...Dartmouth football locker room featured a quote from a former Big Green gridder--"Harvard is Harvard. We did it and we did it to them"--which undoubtedly held some profound significance...
...Richard. Fireballer Nolan Ryan faltered in Richard's slot, but Veteran Joe Niekro and a spot starter named Vern Ruhle, 29, rose to the occasion. The man who really sparked Houston's comeback was Joe Morgan, the team's feisty second baseman. Morgan delivered a stirring locker-room lecture to his demoralized teammates one losing Thursday. They went out and won ten games...