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Word: shea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happiest, hungriest, hustlingest team in baseball, and they seem to have acquired the emotional wherewithal to stand up 'under pressure'. They demonstrated that the last time they faced the Cubs, when they won four of six crucial games. In the opener of a three-game set at Shea Stadium, their home ballpark?the first crucial series ever to involve the Mets?Chicago's crack righthander, Ferguson Jenkins, entered the ninth inning with a 3-1 lead. Minutes later he stalked off the field in disgust, a 4-3 loser. The following night Tom Seaver, 24, the husky, hard-throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Little Team That Can | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...rocked the empire and speeded up the pace of its dissolution. Home rule seemed all but assured for Ireland until the chief advocate in Britain's Parliament, Charles Parnell, was haled into court as a corespondent in a divorce case. Because of his affair with Kitty O'Shea, which outraged Irish Catholics and British Nonconformists alike, Parnell was ruined and home rule was set back for more than 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: PUBLIC FIGURES AND THEIR PRIVATE LIVES | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...Front. At 26, Jones is, by Mets' standards, a grizzled veteran. For years, he has been yearning for a .300-plus batting average. His trouble in the past, he believes, stemmed from well-meaning managers who insisted that he pull the ball toward Shea Stadium's beckoning leftfield fences. Cleon dutifully followed their advice until the middle of the 1968 season, when he decided in a fit of frustration to return to his natural swing. He has been hitting better than .300 ever since. "I'm a line-drive hitter," he explains, "and I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Keeping Up with Jones | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...single hit that Kalinoski relinquished between the first and ninth innings drove in two runs in Northeastern's half of the sixth. After Kalinoski hit pinch-hitter Bill Shea and walked right-fielder Cam VanderVeer, Bob Geist singled into center to narrow the lead to two runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varney, Kalinoski Stop Huskies, Clinch GBL Title For Harvard | 5/13/1969 | See Source »

Adair's first score came after only 30 seconds, but less than a minute later, Cabie Warren put in an unassisted shot to tie the game before Adair tallied again. Andover upped its advantage to 3-1 before the quarter ended on a goal by Jay Shea...

Author: By Benito Playa, | Title: Yardling Laxmen's Rally Fails To Overcome Andover's Lead | 5/8/1969 | See Source »

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