Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British, of course, have tried to explain their national sport to Americans from time to time. After all, the colonials lived under their various majesties for almost two centuries. Indeed, history records that as late as 1859, some 25,000 people dutifully turned out to witness a cricket match in Hoboken, N.J. Still, most Americans have some difficulty understanding a game in which 1) the batter wears gloves while all but one of the fielders are barehanded, 2) runs are scored in dozens or even hundreds, 3) it takes 20 outs to end one "innings," and 4) the whole thing...
...Daddy," and why is there a price of up to $15,000 on his head? See SPORT, Big Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home...
...Others pick on TV and the unattractiveness of older big-league stadiums, at least two of which-Chicago's Comiskey Park and Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium-are located in ghetto areas, which many fans are afraid to traverse at night. The pitchers' domination of the sport and the concurrent decline in hitting (as of last week only eight major-leaguers were batting .300) undoubtedly have had an impact: "Pitching may be 75% of the game," says a San Francisco sportswriter, "but hitting is 75% of the gate." So has the fact that neither league boasts anything...
Seating space can expand the use of three dimensional objects with sittable stones and attractive benches. This would benefit merchants by allowing matrons to rest their aching legs and extend their shopping trips. Seating would further create convenient sports for conversations and meetings and facilitate people watching, an especially enjoyable sport in Cambridge...
...play at all: Baltimore Colts Owner Carroll Rosenbloom has gone so far as to order his front office to work out plans for repaying 50,000 season-ticket holders. In either case, there is genuine concern for the damage a protracted strike may do to the image of the sport. "This league, the players must remember, didn't become a success overnight," says Washington's Williams. "And now it is in danger of being set back years overnight...