Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minnesota Twins and the first player to have a shot at finishing the season at .400 since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941. Our cover story this week examines the still little-known Panamanian-born player-his consistent ability, his playing style, his personality-as well as the sport's oldtime hitters and the many refinements in the fine art of hitting a baseball...
...Willie Mays. "It's hard to explain why you love baseball without sounding like a professor or a 10-year-old kid," says Phillips. "A case can be made for the mental elegance of the game-its beauty, its symmetry, its exquisite timelessness. The other side of the sport is that it's just great fun-it is running free...
...things considered-and nothing is unconsidered in the serious business of games played by grown men-it is the most difficult task in sport. Consider the problem: a bat 2¾ in. in diameter at its widest, hitting a ball not quite 3 in. in diameter; two objects-one cylindrical, the other a sphere-meeting headon. Consider the speed: a major league pitcher's fastball traveling well over 90 m.p.h., hissing the 60-ft. 6-in. distance from mound to plate in ⅔ of a second. Consider the odds: the game's greatest stars failing the task seven...
...baggy pants with a direct connection between fly and pocket. These are called dumpies. Swastika emblems go well with such outfits. In London, the hair is often heavily greased and swept up into a coxcomb of blue, orange or green, or a comely two-tone. Pierced ears may sport safety pins, some made of gold or silver. Of late, punk chic has even been taken up by a few high-fashion designers. But the punkers themselves are beginning to tone down the safety-pin excesses of a few months...
Roger Kahn's Season in the Sun is proof that, pace Thomas Wolfe, you can go home again-when home is a five-sided white plate. Kahn, a sportswriter whose columns appear in TIME, returned to baseball during the summer of 1976 to see how his favorite sport was getting along. From April to October, he traveled-to a town in Arkansas where locals watch college students do or die for old John Brown University; to a seedy ballpark in Pittsfield, Mass., where a minor league team plays to empty stands; to a sun-hammered field in Puerto Rico...