Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite an early Tiger lead, Harvard captured a 7-5 victory, its 18th-straight victory over an Ivy League opponent. The last time Harvard lost...
Harvard never lost confidence. Even when the Lions pumped in goal after goal, the Crimson had hope...
There are other possibilities for the writers' decline, but he never mentions them--never mentions that like other writers, they might have grown tired or lost their passion for writing, that they might have lost the vitality of youth or that their material had grown stale. So Dardis never really convinces that the authors were victims of alcohol alone...
David Halberstam's engaging account of the 1949 season proves both these mythic profiles to be absolutely accurate. That year the pennant race between the two teams came down to the very last game. Of course the Sox lost it. They had done the same thing against the Cleveland Indians in a sudden-death playoff game the year before. Both teams were hobbled by injuries. But the Yankees had the poise and power...
...movie palace and the ball park were the major entertainment centers. The new age of expansion clubs and megasalaries was coming on fast. Though TV was in the wings, radio ruled a fan's life. Teams still traveled by train and, in Halberstam's view, the clubs lost priceless cohesiveness when they boarded airplanes. For these old-timers, alcohol was the prevailing addiction. Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy hectored his players about the evils of drink and then went on benders himself. Kinder, whom Halberstam considers the American League's best relief pitcher of the time, was usually boiled...