Word: marathoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imagine the Boston Red Sox holding a marathon like the one the Boston Symphony/Boston Pops is holding this weekend. What a dream-come-true that would be for George Plimpton '48, a Harvard Poonie and pro-athlete aspirant, if he were in town. Four days of around-the-clock broadcasts of the most stupendous Bosox games of all time at Plimpton's request. Watching the game from the bullpen. Meetings with his idols in the clubhouse. My own pulse accelerates at the thought of what such an opportunity would do to the pulse rate of the little freckled kid next...
Plimpton trained, sweated, and refined his talents until he became deft enough to do each sport with the pros. If he were around today, for his fictional Bosox marathon, it would have been so much less painful. For a minimal charitable pledge to help the team, he could have been out in Fenway Park, batting grounders to Carl Yasztremski. If not like the pros, he could have won a rare opportunity to play with them...
...wire and flying stones. Some hobbled, others seemed permanently hunched from their battle. The weary combatants had just completed the opening day of one of sport's most grueling events, the St. Paul Winter Carnival's 12th International Snowmobile Race-a 576-mile, four-day, open-throttled marathon from St. Paul to Winnipeg...
...took 14 hours and 23 matches, but on Saturday afternoon the second Annual Marathon Women's Volleyball Tournament finally did declare a winner: the Pierre Fonds club which plays out of the Pierre Fonds province of Quebec, Canada. The Maple-leafers defeated Harvard's own Marathon Sports team in the final match...
MOST HONEST FELLA: Dustin Hoffman, at the aforementioned blast. Asked why his Marathon Man costar, Laurence Olivier, was absent, Dusty gave the short answer, "He has too much class...