Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Lee is a cult figure in a sport that is a culture unto itself. He feels and radiates the allure of baseball, and embodies all that the game tries to relate to it's close-minded competition-oriented throng. Meanwhile he lives the dream of every kid that ever broke his glove in by sticking it under his mattress, or scraped his knee sliding at a Little League tryout. He's in the majors, and he's grateful. And if he shows his gratitude by not having an agent squabble over contract negotiations, by not being mercenary to television...
...commend you for giving recognition to the equestrian Three-Day World Championships [Oct. 2] and to a sport that has been in the background for years but is growing in popularity. H?wever, I find it appalling that this phase of competition causes the death or near death of horses. It is time changes occurred to allow horses to remain healthy and still bring honor...
...symbols of two very different baseball philosophies, fought a ninth-inning battle for the second game of the 1978 World Series. One was the best pressure hitter that money could buy, the New York Yankees' Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. The other was the finest young fastballer that the sport's best farm system could produce, the Los Angeles Dodgers' new Mr. Koufax, 21-year-old Rookie Bob Welch. For seven minutes of exquisite tension, nine sizzling pitches and six whooshing swings of the bat, the man who has known great autumns and the boy who will know...
...Angeles star, Lopes was perhaps closest to Gilliam of all the Dodgers. In Game 1, he played with a vengeance. For all the intricate meshing of team play in baseball -the lightning ballet of the double play, the slick-quick coordination of a relay from the outfield-the sport remains a game of individual skills. Lopes produced the first of a string of great individual performances in this 75th World Series. He crashed two home runs into the bleachers in left center, the last a screamer that was still on the rise when it rifled into the stands ten rows...
Gannon smiled and said, "Football was my sport, though." He coached football after graduation, and the records he set for punt return yardage and pass interceptions at Harvard still stand on the books...