Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baseball, unlike most modern day sports, has remained fundamentally unchanged in design and spirit since its genesis in the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the game is attributed in folklore to Abner Doubleday. Besides founding the national sport, Gen. Doubleday--after graduating from West Point--was present at Fort Sumter, where as an artillery captain he sighted the first cannon fired by the Union in the Civil...
Tyng went on to become a pioneer in another fledgling sport. He was one of the leading amateur golfers in the 1890s and played in the second United States Amateur Championship at Shinnecock Hills, N.Y., in 1896. Tyng had taken up the newly imported sport in 1894 and in 1912 and 1915 he won the U.S. Seniors' championship...
...Fire Island several years ago. Now it has become a fashion staple in the straight world." Gays were among the first to wear baggy white painters' pants, though such garments are now being bought by heterosexual men and women. In more elegant ensembles, the wearing of silk scarves with sport coats or suits began among gays and is now catching on with dressy straights...
Ultimate hasn't become a national sport, however, without undergoing some transformations...
...Middlebury team members said they are out for a good time and criticized some of the other teams for taking the sport too seriously and ruining the atmosphere of the contests. "We're out here for a good time and that's all that matters," one Middlebury player said...