Word: seasoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dave McNally (20-7) and Jim Palmer (16-4), is far superior to Atlanta's. And the team boasts such established stars as Outfielder Frank Robinson, Third Baseman Brooks Robinson and First Baseman Boog Powell, who helped the Orioles build a solid .265 batting average for the season...
Whatever happens to the Mets this week, baseball is sure to profit by their stunning success during the season. All through the '60s, baseball has been on the verge of transforming itself from the national pastime into the national bore; it has lost considerable stature as the more colorful and violent games of hockey and football have won increasing prominence. But with one brave stroke, the 1969 Mets reversed that trend. Their own exhilarating transformation from hopeless clowns to heroic champions has extricated baseball from its beer-and-TV tawdriness and elevated it to the realm of myth...
...death knell of the realistic play is sounded every season, and each season some play refutes it. A Whistle in the Dark is just such a drama. It has the raw, roiling energy of life. It is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace. It states truths about human nature that one would rather forget, and reminds one that being born human is the alltime crisis of every...
...Yardlings trounced Tufts, 7-1, in their opening game of the season...
...Crimson harriers are cocky, cocky as hell. They haven't lost any of their last 29 meets, and now that they've whipped Penn, their only challenger, it's unlikely that they'll lose at all this season...