Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half an inch taller than his father, and still growing. It is no surprise, says Vince Lombardi, coach of the pro champion Green Bay Packers, that "today's football player is bigger, faster and sharper mentally." Today's baseball player is bigger too. In almost every sport, the good big man is displacing the good little man. For those who are not big enough, or energetic enough, modern science lends a hand. Green Bay's Lombardi claims that he can put 15 lbs. of solid muscle on anybody with a carefully supervised program of weight lifting...
Perhaps. But that big money contributes a great deal. And U.S. sport is none the worse because TV's expensive insistence on excellence has turned true amateurs into a vanishing class-unless the statistics include "amateur" tennis players who get $9,000 a year from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association for playing on the Davis Cup team, or the track stars who compete for phonographs and TV sets. "Professional" is no longer a term of derogation; it is a synonym for superb. No longer does the golf pro come in the back door of the country club...
Only a few decades ago, when most sports were the province of the rich, baseball-the one game any kid could play on a sandlot-was the National Pastime. Today, in an affluent democracy, when just about everyone can afford the pastime of his choice, no single game, but sport itself has become the nation's favorite. It also has become an honorable profession, open to every class and every race. It has produced a new type of professional athlete-admired, socially acceptable and remarkably well educated. Quarterback Charley Johnson of pro football's St. Louis Cardinals...
Which is another way of saying that sport is attracting superior talent. Today there is no achievement that cannot be matched, no record that cannot be broken. Contemporary athletes have long since eclipsed the great stars of the '20s and made the '60s the Golden Age of U.S. sport...
...infected back, four ankle sprains, eight torn ligaments, and splinters in all ten fingers. The other night, while fastening the neck brace he has to wear between performances, he was asked why he didn't put out a little less or stay home and play his favorite sport of Monopoly. Crawford, aghast at such an unprofessional thought, replied: "I wouldn't give up those laughs for anything. My injuries are pleasure bumps...