Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opponents are getting desperate," she says. "They began attacking me in June instead of waiting till August." Being the front runner does not displease her. "Look at it this way. I'm the underdog who happens to be ahead." And she smiles, not at all sweetly...
...self-professed country bumpkin with a fearsome fastball that more than made up for his scrambled syntax, but even when his arm died he still knew how to play the game. One day in the tail end of his career he found himself on first base as a pinch runner in the late innings of a crucial game. The bat cracked and leather trimmed the grass, skidding into a textbook double play. Only Dean's head and the ball arrived at second in the same painful instant, and Dean rolled onto the bag unsure of whether his hairline was still...
OMAHA, Neb.--As the dust cleared late in the week, two teams stood, clearly the best in the nation. Third-ranked South Carolina, the CWS runner-up to Texas in 1975, was the only team to have survived the early rounds without a loss. With a bundle of major league prospects, incredible team speed and good pitching dictated the Gamecock strategy...
...high drama associated with the showcase of American golf. An affable Alabamian named Hubert Green displayed the mettle of one of golf's great champions in shooting a final round of even par 70 to win his first major championship with a 278 total, only one shot ahead of runner-up Lou Graham...
With men on second and third and one out, Rick Burleson grounded out off reliever Dick Tidrow to score pinch-runner Rick Miller with the typing...