Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard stuff, soft stuff. Try anything. I'm still going to hit that ball.' God, do I love to hit that little round sumbitch out of the park and make 'em say 'Wow!' " Opposing pitchers like Baltimore's perennial 20-game winner, Jim Palmer, believe him. "When I'm pitching against Jackson," says Palmer, "I'm happy just keeping the ball inside the park...
When Arnold Palmer became a popular hero, golf and money married, and things have never since been as polite as they once were. Still, golfers maintained the right to complain when their concentration was affronted. The problem has not been as bothersome in professional tennis, probably because of the composition, and the style, of those who watched, country clubbers and suburban elites, firm believers all in the etiquette of the game. When commercial sponsors started backing tennis heavily in the early '60s, a popular participation mushroomed. Entrepreneurs figured that they could tune into something big--the problem, were the killing...
...Palmer House: "I don't enjoy waiting on my peers. I feel that if I'm gonna occupy a position that's menial, let it be to some one perhaps a cut above...
...Crimson varsity tennis team registered its sixth EITA victory of the season last Saturday by demolishing Dartmouth, 7-2, on the Palmer Dixon Courts across the river...
...University has other tennis courts. The hard courts behind the Business School are marginally better than those on Soldiers Field proper. The Radcliffe courts are actually nice. The indoor courts on Soldiers Field (Palmer-Dixon) are the best courts in the University. Undergraduates can reserve them and play on them for free in the mornings, but must call promptly at 10 a.m. two days before the day they want to play. The overcrowding there can be incredible...