Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grand Old Sport...
...your sport story on the pennant race [Oct. 7] you say that the very fine and most deserving young man, Mr. Larry Jaster of St. Louis, "set a major league record" by shutting out the Los Angeles Dodgers five times in a row. Seems to me you should do a little research when you make such statements. He only tied the record set by Grover Cleveland Alexander against the Cincinnati Reds in 1916. I believe Larry is a left-hander-Alex was, of course, a righthanded, sidearm pitcher...
...Alex were here he would not even allow me to make this complaint being perhaps a better sport than I. I would not take a thing away from Mr. Jaster, and at his age he has a very large chance to beat Alex's record many times over. He (Alex) has a few more records for someone to aim for and "beat...
...sooner had the World Series cheering faded than the Baltimore Orioles' Frank Robinson, 31, set off to make some noises of his own. In Manhattan with his wife Barbara to pick up the Corvette Sting Ray that Sport magazine gave him for being the Series' standout, Frank began exercising his vocal cords for the winter's after-dinner speaking circuit, which will keep him busy describing how he won batting's Triple Crown and then went on to wreck the Los Angeles Dodgers with two more homers in the Series. Frank, who stands to collect about...
Since 1958, surfing has become so fashionable and so ubiquitous that New York hippies and Nebraska teenagers can talk convincingly about "wiping out" on the Newport Beach "Wedge." Singing groups have accumulated fortunes by exploiting tenuous attachments to the sport...