Word: players
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have always loved Bill Lee. He was the only mad one, the only player I really wanted to talk to in Winterhaven, after I had been Holiday-Inned to death by all the other ball players to whom I asked the usual sportswriter questions and got the usual sportswriter dreck..."Well, you gotta like our ball club, we're lookin' good, lookin' good...just trying to get in shape, you know, we can win it all this year, that's what we're out here to do and we're gonna...
Libby Pierpont took a deep breath. "I think," she mused, "you should take advantage of what you have to offer." What Pierpont has to offer are the groundstrokes and backhands to rate as the number-two player on what is expected to be the best women's tennis team in these parts since, well, ever...
...fact that we're all young really helps," says Ditzler, the youngest player on last year's team, the second oldest this time around. Explains Pierpont, "The women's sports program here is growing, and we'll be able to grow with...
...Player's great success in the Masters over the years is uniquely fitting. The course was designed by Alister Mackenzie, an Englishman who had fought in the Boer War. Mackenzie was deply impressed with the Boers' ability to consistently ambush the British forces because of their familiarity with the terrain. When it came time to design Augusta, he was inspired by the subtle techniques of camouflaging he had learned in South Africa...
After he sank his birdie putt on 18 on Sunday, Player, whose demeanor is akin to that of the dour Scotch pros of old, erupted into a victory jig. He also punched the air in triumph. This is a common gesture nowadays, but before the 21-year-old Gary Player joined the U.S. tour in 1957, it had never been seen in America...