Word: milte
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...Frank Duffy and Sam McDowell to the Giants; 82. Nettles and Jerry Moses went to the Yankees for John Ellis, Jerry Kenney, Charlie Spikes, and Rosendo Torres; 83. Willie Montanez and Jim Browning went to the Phillies; 84. Dave May and Roger Alexander for Hank Aaron; 85. Milt Pappas, Dick Simpson, and Jack Baldschun: 86. Bill Robinson, Diomedes (Chi Chi) Olivo for Boyer; 87. Singleton, Mike Jorgensen, and Tim Foli to Expos for Rusty Staub; 88. Singleton, and Mike Torrez for Dave McNally, Rich Coggins and Bill Kirkpatrick; 89. Bonds to Yankees for Bobby Murcer; to Angels for Mickey Rivers...
Boston Garden never looked better. Every seat in the house was filled and discs bearing the names and retired numbers of Eddie Shore, Dit Clapper, Milt Schmidt and Lionel Hitchman hung in the rafters among the numerous Bruin and Celtic championship banners. Boston would play the Soviet Wings in a lopsided exhibition game later that evening, but Tuesday night belonged to Bobby...
Ironically enough, THE GAME that historical '75 was really no more than A GAME, and even that's stretching it. THE GAME implies 16-point Harvard comebacks in the final minute, or Pineapple Milt Holt darting left with the winning touchdown as the clock all but expires. THE GAME does not imply the contest we are about to recall, the 100th anniversary of the Harvard-Yale tong war, the meeting which was decided when Lynch made a football look like a wobbly duck yet still got it to travel the required 26 yards up and barely over the goal posts...
Brown is also just 182 yards short of the single season passing record currently held by Milt Holt, who garnered 1456 yards in the 1974 campaign...
...period which should have been filled with celebration, pride, and satisfaction over the finest display of football at the Stadium since Milt Holt and his White Shoes Bootleg...