Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bosox fans don't just remember Yaz for replacing Williams, winning the batting title in his third season in the majors or capturing the Triple Crown. They remember him for being there, game in, game out, for 23 seasons with...
P.O.V. (PBS, debuting July 18, 10 p.m. on most stations). This summer series -- a collection of independent documentaries, all expressing their makers' "point of view" -- launches its second season with Who Killed Vincent Chin?, an Oscar-nominated film about the 1982 slaying of a young Chinese- American engineer...
...many comrades and compatriots" killed and beaten by "bestial, fascist troops" or "crushed to death and flattened out by tanks." In a separate statement, he likened the present rule in Beijing to "a black sun" that rose "on the day in June that should have belonged to a season of fresh flowers." He predicted that it would not last long: "Black sun, I'm going to shoot you down...
...generally a crime in every state except Nevada. But by now the prohibition, like many other antigambling laws, is hardly ever enforced. Betting goes on so openly that all but a handful of newspaper sports pages print the odds on baseball, football and basketball games. During the football season, the New York Daily News publishes four regular and two rotating columnists who offer weekly advice on which pro and college games to bet; its columns bristle with ads touting betting services offering the same assistance. Asks Bobby Knight, basketball coach of Indiana University: "Why don't the newspapers run whores...
...last day of Rose's first season, the great Stan Musial squirted a final pair of singles, one to each side of Cincinnati's rookie second baseman, and retired. For 18 years Rose deplored those bouncing balls as two hits he might not have needed to pass Musial. He thinks that's normal: "How hard is it to remember you had 170 hits your first year and 139 your second, which is only 309 your first two years, when you've had ten 200-hit years and are averaging 198 hits a season for 20 years?" Furthermore: "If you have...