Word: lowenstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Utles, NY 5 Greg Kouveins QB 6-1 135 Jr. Marvivilla, IL 67 Dick Lawanon OG 6-3 225 So. Purs, IL 15 Jerry Louse ADJ 6-0 135 Jr. Springfield, MA 32 Jim Letre WB 6-1 105 Jr. Springfield, PA 90 John Lowenstein SE 5-9 100 Se. Arlington, MA 83 Peter Mackie TE 6-6 200 Jr. Wellesley Hills, MA 21 Tim Mange RB 5-11 175 Se. FT. Wayne, IN 26 Paul Macros DT 6-6 200 Sr. For Rockaway, NY 8 Andrew Maretz PK 6-3 285 Se. Woodbridge, CT 19 Tim McGugan...
...best last year when he slugged 41 homers and knocked in 123 runs, and he was the best this year when he had 35 home runs and 130 RBIs. The fact that he happens to be a composite of several different characters, for the most part Lefthanded Hitter John Lowenstein and Righthander Gary Roenicke, is a bit befuddling, but it begins to describe the 80th World Series...
...Orioles arrived at this glory in place of the Chicago White Sox thanks largely to Roenicke, who batted .750 and hit an important home run in the American League playoffs. For his reward, he was benched the first two Series games with Philadelphia and displaced by Lowenstein, who made a marvelous catch in Game 1, hit a mighty homer in Game 2, and was replaced by Roenicke in Game 3. "I don't want to play the third game," said Lowenstein sensibly. "Steve Carlton is pitching." That is a typically reasonable reaction for an Oriole, especially Lowenstein, who never...
...first pitch in the eighth over the left-field fencing, arming Denny with the lead for the first time. The Phillies nearly had successive homers when Bo Diaz, the next better, hit a 1-0 pitch that seemed destined to sail over the fence in left field, but John Lowenstein timed his leap perfectly and snared the ball above and beyond the fence...
Above all, Allard Lowenstein was not a quitter. He never seemed to stand a chance, but always continued the fight, often with success one could never have imagined. It seems fitting that, as one tribute notes, one of his favorite, film moments was a scene from The African Queen in which Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart emerge from an unnavigable jungle river. Told that the stream is clearly impassible, the feisty Hepburn raises her head and replies. "Nevertheless..." It is a word that applies well to the tragically truncated life and efforts of Allard Lowenstein...