Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wade Boggs needs just one more hit to reach that elusive .400 mark. Here's the pitch by Steib. Sharp roller, through the legs of Upshaw. Wade Boggs has done what no other player since Ted Williams...
...Ferris wheel peeks over the roof into the stadium, and a roller coaster screams by third base. Though the infield grass is plastic, the place is handsome. "Almost too nice," says the pitcher Bret Saberhagen. "It doesn't feel like spring training." In the name of civic pride and the interest of land development, tin and wood are being traded everywhere for aluminum and concrete...
...second period, things began to fall apart for Harvard. First, Dave Tretowicz hit the Crimson post with a slow roller from the blue-line. Then, with 11 minutes remaining in the period. junior Dave Mellen converted his first career goal from the same sport Tretowicz had launched his bowling ball six minutes earlier...
...riderless limos are not the only sign that the 1988 Jackson campaign is a far cry from the seat-of-the-pants, roller-coaster operation of 1984. The dilapidated Lockheed Electra turboprop (which later crashed) has been replaced by a DC-9, complete with computers. Schedules, just vague advisories in the last campaign, which ran on Jesse Jackson time (three hours behind all known time zones), are sometimes adhered to. Church choirs warming up the crowd are still crucial, but now so are the hard-nosed strategists busily color-coding districts on wall-size maps. "Eighty-four was a crusade...
...Mike Richter, 21, the American goalie. "These breakups are the worst," he said, chomping on an apple. "A rushed goodbye after being together so long: How do you do it?" The U.S. hockey team finished seventh and was even jeered by International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who roller-skates a little. "I feel hollow," Richter admitted, "but I'll remember the quality of the competition too, and the nod I got once from the Soviet goaltender Evgeni Belocheikine, going into the cafeteria. It was pretty nice. I liked...