Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canadian ace Ross Adair came surprisingly close to upsetting Vic Niederhoffer in the top match. In the first game the Crimson captain had to rally to tie Adair at 13-13; he then went on to win the best-of-nine playoff...
Only one position can be predicted with certainty in this year's National Hockey League race, and that is last place, since it will obviously be occupied by Boston's own Bruins. The other five teams, however, should find themselves involved in a and for the four Stanley Cup Playoff berths...
...game lead in the final week and presented the 1962 National League pennant to the San Francisco Giants. And it seemed only the day before that Bobby Thomson of the Giants deposited a dinky drive into the leftfield seats at the Polo Grounds to beat the Dodgers in a playoff for the 1951 pennant. Now the stage was set for another whirlwind finish that would leave the Dodgers flat on their backs, muttering dazedly: "Wait till next year...
...looks like a Dodger year. But fans have a recurrent nightmare of the old New York Giants' Bobby Thomson homering away Brooklyn's hopes in the 1951 playoff, and the memory of last year's pitching collapse and the Dodgers' virtual abdication of the crown to the Giants is still fresh...
...next day's 36-hole playoff, the combatants were a study in contrast. Tall (6 ft. 1½ in.) and tightlipped, Charles acted just like the bank clerk he once was; stumpy and waggish, Rodgers swapped wisecracks with the gallery. The American's grin turned to a grimace as Charles one-putted eleven of the first 18 holes and took a three-stroke lead. He then picked up another five strokes in five holes and breezed to an eight-stroke victory. "I must have demoralized him," said Charles...