Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North, I winced a lot. And Moscow. It just killed...
Gardner, obtained in the 1985 trade that sent Bob Ojeda to the New York Mets, relieved winner Bruce Hurst (2-0) with men on second and third and none out in the seventh. He struck out Pete Incaviglia, Larry Parrish and Don Slaught on 14 pitches to end the threat and allowed just one hit while striking out seven in three innings...
Nipper retired Pete O'Brien to start the Texas eighth. Then Pete Incaviglia broke up the shutout bid, hitting a 3-2 pitch off the backwall at the flagpole in center for his third homer...
...During Pete Rose's magical summer of 1978, when he tied Wee Willie Keeler's National League mark of hitting safely in 44 consecutive game, the Cincinnati legend failed to collect a hit against the Braves in game 45. How did Rose make his final out and which pitcher denied him a place in the record book on that final plate appearance...
...reveres the old coaches like Henry Iba, Joe Lapchick and Pete Newell. When Clair Bee was 85 and blind, Long Island's great coach painstakingly scratched out a message for Knight that read: "Clair Bee and Bob Knight do not believe that repetition is gospel." Lately Knight, 46, has actually dabbled in zone defenses and, as the euphemism goes, "broadened his recruiting base." A junior-college transfer, Keith Smart, made the last two jumpers against Syracuse...