Word: maximized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maxim number one is, as Mel Allen always used to say at World Series time, that "you can throw out the record book for this tradition-draped event." Re-member Nashua? Candy Spots? Native Dancer? They all looked like sure things. They weren't. We do not advise ignoring good horses, but the Derby prognosticator should be skeptical of any horse who looks unbeatable...
...Maxim number two is to ignore West Coast horses, no matter how solid they look on paper. In 91 years only one invader from California has been able to win the Derby--the great Swaps. It takes most equines quite a while to adjust from the lightning-fast strips in the West to the sandler racing surfaces in the Midwest and East...
...years of percolating is better than instant," says one actress. Having done 30 productions (predominantly classical) since its start, the APA is now a well-integrated, well-trained troupe, one-third of whom have been in the company all five years. They are beginning to reflect Rabb's maxim that a rep company should be made up not of chameleon-like actors but of a group of stars who leave their individual mark on each role...
...power hitters: Harmon Killebrew (.270, 49 homers), Tony Oliva (.323, 32 homers), Bob Allison (.287, 32 homers), Jimmie Hall (.283, 24 homers), and Earl Battey (.272, 12 homers). But the Twins had all these sluggers last year, and still finished in sixth place, a living testimony to the maxim that pitching is 75 per cent of baseball. Only Camilo Pascual (15-12) and Jim Kaat (17-11) had decent seasons, and unless Minnesota comes up with another reliable pitcher, they won't be able to finish higher than fifth...
Ever since the time of Abner Doubleday, baseball pundits have been proclaiming that "pitching is 75 per cent of the game." If the maxim is true, Harvard will gave roughly 25 per cent of a baseball team this year...