Word: players
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ismaiol then set the tone for the rest of the match by breaking Lundy's service to put away the set, 6-4. The SMU player then cruised home in the second set, yielding just one game...
...against competition considered to be inferior to that back East. But Affirmed won the Santa Anita Derby and the Hollywood Derby, and obviously was in magnificent shape for the Derby and the Preakness. Like Cauthen, Barrera has enormous confidence in his horse. Says he: "If Affirmed was a baseball player, he'd be Joe DiMaggio. He does things so easy...
...makings of a good script: a crusty major league baseball manager spots a player on a prison team, gives him a tryout and watches him become a star. Which is just how Detroit Tigers All-Star Outfielder Ron LeFlore was discovered by New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin, during his stint at the helm of the Tigers. Now LeFlore's sto ry, One in a Million, will make it to the screen as a CBS-TV movie. LeFlore is played by LeVar Burton (Roots), and Billy Martin by-who else?-Billy Martin. Has he made a hit on camera...
Only Lapidus, a ball-smashing south-paw, has any realistic chance of placing high in the tournament. Defending team champion Stanford did not graduate a player, and it added Wimbledon semifinalist John McEnroe. McEnroe, teammate and defending individual champ Matt Mitchell, UCLA's John Austin, Elliot Teltscher and Trinity's Larry Gottfried should fight it out for number-one individual honors...
...other presentations, attack Dave Wigglesworth picked up the Herman Hammerman "Unsung Hero" award, while husky crease ace Mac DeCamp was named the most improved player...