Word: player
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...score came in the first inning, when San Francisco's Willie Mays singled, went to second on a muffed pick-off attempt, to third on a wild pitch, and home on a double play. That unearned run gave the National League the game and Mays the Most Valuable Player award...
Ridiculous? Certainly. But it could come to something almost as bizarre, because last week the N.F.L. was on strike. After six months of bargaining, the owners of the league's 16 teams had acceded to 21 player demands, including increases in the guaranteed minimum salary (to $12,000 for second-year men, $13,000 for third-year men), payments for preseason exhibition games ($500 per game) and such minor benefits as air conditioning in the training-camp barracks. But on the 22nd point-pensions-negotiations broke down. Determined to show its muscle, the N.F.L. Players Association, headed by Detroit...
...mind to, and Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, 31 , is a peripatetic Polyphemus. In ten years as a pro, Wilt has moved four times - jumping from the Harlem Globetrotters to National Basketball Association clubs in Philadelphia and San Francisco before returning to Philadelphia. Last week the greatest offensive player in the history of basketball hit the road again...
Kahn has enormous help from Jane Greenwood's huge virtuosic wardrobe of oft-changing costumes, and from the up-to-date music and songs by Frangipane & Dante. I would also have to mention the name of every single player in the cast, all of whom, major and minor, are unfailingly entertaining both aurally and visually. I will at least cite here the stylish skill of Lawrence Pressman in the play's fattest role, that of the witty and skeptical lord Berowne...
...deadline for playing the first round is Friday, July 19. Each player will be sent the name of his opponent and will arrange a date for their match. No games except the finals will be announced, according to Paul Mosca, director of the Tournament...