Word: players
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...topic was baseball. And William Francis Lee III, who is unfairly treated like Aristotle in high stirrups at times, talked about baseball. And what's more, he talked like a baseball player...
...SATURDAY'S STATS INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Rushing Player (School) Att. Yds. Avg. LG Polillio (H) 20 95 4.8 23 Granger (H) 11 79 7.1 41 Dufresne (D) 20 79 3.9 13 Teevens (D) 14 67 4.8 32 Jenkins...
Coach Debi Field was less modest about the star player's show. "Sarah was devastating," she said...
DIED. James Gilliam, 49, coach and former player for the Los Angeles Dodgers; following a stroke; in Inglewood, Calif. The Tennessee-born Gilliam joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1953, replacing Jackie Robinson at second base, and was celebrated as a "ballplayer's ballplayer" before turning into a player-coach in 1965 and a full-time coach two years later. Stricken on Sept. 15, Gilliam slipped into a coma and never knew that his team had dedicated its league championship and World Series play...
...effect of Gilliam's death on the club varied with each player, but there was little doubt that the Dodgers' fierce concentration during the opening games was heightened by their determination to make Gilliam's last team a championship club. Captain Davey Lopes insisted the night before the funeral that the Yankees would have to beat 50 Dodgers, "all 25 men on the roster and then the part of Jim Gilliam that...