Word: piggott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mary Gaines, 14 and 16 the day they wed. When Jackie says she's preoccupied lately with thoughts of "all the people who dedicated themselves to helping a young girl dream," she starts with a family huddled several generations strong in either the coldest or the warmest ( house on Piggott Avenue, across the street from a tavern, down the block from a pool hall, around the corner (blessedly) from a playground...
...that time, Kersee was coaching both her and Al, and on a remarkable August night the two schemers from Piggott Avenue made history. Al had all but won the triple jump when Jackie took her mark in the 800-meter run, the finale of the heptathlon. If she could stay within about 15 yds. of the Australian Glynis Nunn, Jackie's lead under the weighted point system would hold up. But her left leg was bound with a hamstring wrap that crippled her confidence more than her stride...
...first in the final two furlongs. "As near to being a masterpiece as is possible in race riding," said Racing Writer Brough Scott. A computer chart showed that a horse had a better chance of winning with Cauthen aboard than with any other jockey, including the legendary Lester Piggott. Piggott, 49, is Britain's Willie Shoemaker, a gritty, no-nonsense veteran who has won eleven jockey championships. His terse appraisal after his first matchup against Cauthen: "I wouldn't let him mow my lawn." The stony-faced Piggott later relented slightly: "He's good, but not that...
When the century was younger and Motown was Boomtown, jobs were for the picking on the conveyor belts of Detroit. Forrest Jones got one, leaving behind the dust of Piggott, Ark. So did Paul Youker's father, trading hard times in New York to be a security guard for General Motors. Terrace Turner's father got another, moving north from Mississippi...