Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orioles, because-as many fans may want to forget-the Orioles are in fact the old St. Louis Browns gone east and up. So, in a way, Marsh could hardly call last week work. It was off to Baltimore for a game with the Chicago White Sox, then to Minnesota for the series with the Twins and out to Los Angeles for the games with the Angels. He talked to Hank Bauer and the birds, as well as Oriole General Manager Lee MacPhail, in the dugout, on buses, planes and in dressing rooms. And in the end he was showing...
...Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen topped it off with some gentle joshing. "Mr. President," said Ev, "I am glad that a modest Republican can participate, and with some qualification can express his affection and love for the distinguished senior Senator from Minnesota." Dirksen then projected to next Jan. 20, when, as he foresaw events, the Republicans would have won the White House. Purred he: "I want to be able to say with a heart full of thanksgiving, 'Glory be! We love Hubert and we have kept him here...
...careless collapse of the San Francisco Giants, the frantic frustration of the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers, the night the Japanese finally broke into the U.S. big leagues. If that is not enough, there is always the curious sale of the Yankees to CBS and the wondrous hitting of Minnesota's Tony Oliva, a champion in his rookie year...
...Democratic delegates. But even then he dragged out the suspense. His speech was a classic of "the man who . . ." He extolled virtue after virtue. But only at the end of the final sentence-a sentence punctuated by excruciating pauses-did he bellow the name of "Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota...
...believer in the old-fashioned theory that preseason games don't count. For three straight years, Sherman's Giants have been the champions of the National Football League's Eastern Division. But now they look more like chumps-at least on TV. They lost to the Minnesota Vikings, 21-7, and Sherman insisted: "The defense looked good." Then they ran into the Green Bay Packers and Halfback Paul ("Golden Boy") Hornung, back from a year in Coventry for betting on games. Hornung passed for one touchdown, booted two field goals and four extra points, and the Packers...