Word: sand-lot
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...Pittsburgh coal dealer, he was turned down at Notre Dame and Indiana ("I only weighed 145 then," he explains), finally settled for the University of Louisville. After graduation, the Pittsburgh Steelers gave him a tryout, sent him home. Baltimore found him playing for a Pittsburgh sand-lot team - and signed him up with an 80? phone call that has to be the best investment in pro football history. Unitas set an alltime record by throwing touchdown passes in 47 straight games. He led the Colts to two N.F.L. championships, was voted the league's Player of the Year, made...
...Common life is a blessed thing: "I took the regular train home, looking out of the window at a peaceable landscape and a spring evening, and it seemed to me that fishermen and lone bathers and grade-crossing watchmen and sand-lot ballplayers and lovers unashamed of their sport and owners of small sailing craft and old men playing pinochle in firehouses were the people who stitched up the big holes in the world that were made by men like me." > Moral deformity carries its own stigmata: "He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature...
...verbal portion, 711 on the math portion (out of a possible 800). This summer he gobbled science fiction even at meals ("I couldn't fight it," says his mother), downed books on existentialism, extrasensory perception and Zen Buddhism. He also got hooked on jazz and played daily sand-lot baseball...
...companies paid millions of dollars for choice concessions. Providing services and equipment to the oil industry made a thin upper crust gorgeously rich, but scarcely benefited such middle-class families as the Betancourts. Rómulo went to work as a bill collector for a wholesale tobacco firm, played sand-lot soccer (right forward), entered the law school of Caracas' Central University...
...There were 29 football deaths last season, the highest since 1947's total of 30, reported Los Angeles State College's Dr. Floyd Eastwood in his annual survey last week. Of the 18 deaths resulting directly from injury on the fields, sand-lot football, rated the most dangerous, accounted for six. But seven died in high school practice or play, two in the semi-pro leagues, and three in college. Of the eleven deaths indirectly associated with football, four were attributed to heat exhaustion: three high school players and one college player (Charles Lohr of the University...