Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to retain interior passenger and cargo space. Oldsmobile will market the first mass-produced diesel models in U.S. auto history. Some lines will be scrapped altogether; Ford will drop its dated, slow-selling Comets and Mavericks and replace them with new compacts, the Fairmont and Zephyr, that will sport a lean European profile and rectangular head lamps...
...nine) and Rogers Hornsby (six) won more consecutive batting crowns. Now 31 and in his eleventh season with the Twins (in a state where they name snow cones after football players instead of candy bars after batsmen), Carew has spent a career as the best-kept secret in American sport-a long neglected but authentic hero. Now he can turn obscurity into immortality. According to no less an authority than Williams himself, Carew's chances of reaching his goal of a .400 season are good. Says Teddy Ballgame: "Of all the guys in the game now, I think...
Whatever the outcome in October, Carew's quest for the elusive .400 is a welcome and joyous event for baseball, helping to turn the sport away from its fractious present and back to its roots. After a generation of musical franchises, a decade of labor unrest in the locker room, a time of free agents and frostbitten World Series in mid-October, baseball sorely needs to get down to basics. Carew is the right man at the right time, a modern version of Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler pushing the ball past grasping...
Despite a long career at the top of his sport, Rod Carew is the least-known star in baseball's galaxy. He works his wonders in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, cities owned-in the national mind, if not in reality-by Fran Tarkenton, Mary Tyler Moore and blizzards. Carew's feats have gone virtually unnoticed by the national press. Without argument the outstanding hitter of his generation, he has appeared on the cover of the Sporting News-baseball's Bible-only three times in more than a decade. In an era of jocks selling...
...pitch is-I'll get my cut at it." To know that if you do hit .400, the season of '77 will be remembered as the one that belonged to Rod Carew. And to know that, .400 season or not, your place in the history of your sport is already secure. "He doesn't have to prove anything," says Manager Mauch. "All he has to do is retire and wait for the Hall of Fame to call." Consider that...