Word: matic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stating this, I don't express the fanatical sports enthusiasm of those who play Strat-o-Matic baseball and memorize the statistics of every Major League player. I didn't even know that Dave Rignetti was sent to the last year. I missed, on purpose, the NCAA basketball finals, and really didn't care that N.C. State scored an upset I only watch golf tournaments when Jack Nicklaus is on the leader's board...
...third annual Strat-o-Matic baseball league got underway yesterday with its first-ever fall draft
...plastics, superhighways and suburban tracts. The entire culture seemed to have teen-age glands. New, unsettling dimensions suddenly opened: the interstate highway system, the picture window, the grainy little black-and-white universe of television. Gas was cheap, and bright big-finned Detroit cars with Dynaflow or Hydra-Matic swooshed Americans up and down the landscape in rhapsodies of mobility, well-being and heedlessness. In 1954, Oklahoma A & M College surveyed its students to ask their greatest fears and problems. The students answered that their greatest worry in the world was finding a parking space...
Last Saturday Beebe and her troopers were making phone calls and receiving visitors in a gleaming, air-conditioned office, complete with Bunn-o-matic coffee makers and an offering of Anderson t-shirts, buttons and frisbees. "We work fast," says Beebe with a smile...
Luckily, Strat-o-Matic baseball is a year-round sport and the 1979 cards are in. Soldiers Field may be cold and wet, but there's nothing but warmth inside when I watch Jim Palmer twirl a four-hitter for my San Francisco Seals, winning 4-1 and improving my record to three of four. Keep it quiet, but I think the Seals have the horses...