Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pete Rose and Carl Yastrzemski, it is a very good year...
...symbol seems more appropriate for Angell than for any of the sports other scribes. Baseball is loved for its everyday consistency, and the majority of its sportswriters are equally reassuring and revered for their predictable accounts. But it is the Ron Guidrys and Pete Roses that continue to redefine baseball excellence and make the park worth coming to. In the baseball-writing world, Roger Angell serves as the dazzling star, who not only plays the game but shapes it, enchanting baseball fans and others for the past 20 years. The long, expansive articles, the smooth, artistic personal accounts offer...
...California, earnestly competent San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, 48, won the Republican Senate nomination over three Congressmen-Barry Goldwater Jr. (a Senator's son), Pete McCloskey and Robert Dornan-and Maureen Reagan (a presidential daughter). Far ahead in the polls only six months ago, an overconfident Goldwater ran a lazy and lackluster campaign and finished a distant third with only 19% of the vote. Governor Jerry Brown won the Democratic Senate nomination, but it was not an impressive victory. He captured only 51% of the ballots cast, giving up 15% to Author Gore Vidal, 15% to little-known State...
...interspersed with big-time pop-music making. The day's performers reflected the cultural complexion of the crowd: young and hip, like Rockers Lin da Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne; tweedy and middleaged, like Folk Singers Peter, Paul and Mary; politically insistent, like Balladeers Joan Baez and Pete Seeger...
...appeal for the state's conservatives. BARRY GOLDWATER FOR THE U.S. SENATE, A TRADITION goes his slogan, and one TV spot shows him sitting on the Capitol steps with dad. Goldwater, however, now appears to be running neck and neck with Wilson and another seven-term Congressman, Paul (Pete) McCloskey of Menlo Park, near San Francisco. A Los Angeles Times poll released last week showed Wilson leading Goldwater 25% to 22%, while McCloskey was favored by 21% of the voters. Another recent poll, by the Mervin Field organization, has Goldwater leading with 29% followed by Wilson (28%) and McCloskey...