Word: rodger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ahead 1-0 in the first game. Eli centerfielder Chuck Sizemore raced under and dropped a deep two-run triple to centerfield. In the second game, pitcher Rodger Finney came in to protect a 4-1 lead and promptly delivered 14 pitches- three walks, a double, and a ???crifice fly- for four Harvard runs...
...style was a complex amalgam of hillbilly, blues, English ballad, and Hawaiian twang, all coupled with Rodger's own "blue yodel." A mixture of Swiss yodeling and the Negro falsetto, Rodgers took his voice past its highest note and let it break into "T for Texas, T for Tennessee," yodelling on the "T's" and then back into a normal range for the next line...
Lloyd Ruby stood there in the Indiana rain with Rodger Ward, in front of a television camera, and a million or so people in TV land watched them. Roger Ward had won the Indianapolis 500 twice, and then, with a tearful speech, retired in 1966. Now he was back as the resident racer on ABC's Wide World of Sports, interviewing Ruby following the first day of qualifications for this year's edition of the race...