Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...27th Masters Golf Tournament (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). The final moments Saturday, Sunday (4-5:30) and, in case of a playoff, Monday...
Detroit has captured the fourth and last playoff position, leaving the New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins more than 20 points away...
...Williams. In the 1962 season, Mays, 31, led both leagues in home runs with 49, batted in 141 runs. He hit .304 for the year, and it was his home run clout in the last regular-season game against the Houston Colts that sent the Giants into a playoff with the Los Angeles Dodgers and then into the World Series. Al ready the highest-paid active player in baseball (the aging Musial now gets an estimated $70,000), Centerfielder Mays's raise was a $10,000 boost over last year's salary...
That first year. Lombardi's adrenaline-filled Packers won seven of twelve games -including, admits Hornung. "a fistful that we had no business winning." In 1960. they won the Western Conference championship with an 8-4 record, dropped a 17-13 squeaker to Philadelphia in the X.F.L. championship playoff. Last year the Packers went all the way-and the title game, praise be, was at Green Bay. Nothing like it has ever been seen, before or since. Wrote New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith, after the Giants were demolished: ''The poisonous polish of the Packers...
...away games. Green Bay can afford to be generous with its champions. Packers' salaries are among the highest in the league: raw rookies get $8.000; half a dozen players are in the $20.000 bracket. And there is plenty of frosting on the cake. Last year's championship playoff was worth $5,500 to each man on the Packer squad; this year the winner's share will probably hit $7,000. The Packers get free life insurance (minimum policy: $10.000) and a free medical plan that pays 80 of their families' ordinary doctors' bills, more...