Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million; the premiums on Slew's $3.5 million insurance policy run a huge $2,000 per week. Those are, heady figures for a colt bought at auction for a bargain-basement $17,500. But Slew's owners want to return some of their good fortune to the sport. For racing fans, a four-year-old campaign by a Triple Crown Champion would be rich reward indeed...
...each of his assistant coaches to coordinate the alumni efforts in a different section of the country. Other coaches, including baseball mentor Loyal Park, tend to rely more on a few individuals they know personally, and even on the advice of an occasional professional scout. But regardless of the sport, it is the alumni and other interested volunteers who bear the burden of finding and approaching high school prospects...
Royce N. Flippin Jr., athletic director at Princeton, disagrees with Mackey. "The real key is not what sport it is, or whether it's Ivy League or not, it's the quality of the program. If the student thinks he or she can excel he'll come, hardnosed inner-city kid or not." But Flippin admits that personal contact between coaches and players is often necessary to remove misconceptions about Ivy League athletics--especially in sports such as basketball and wrestling, two "inner-city" sports in which Princeton is the Ivy League champion...
...mother, who is over 100, is still living on her own in Washington. Future alumni reports from Fairbank will probably include not only news about the progress of his books and of his travels to Asia this September, but also reports on the practice of frisbee, his favorite "sport;" then there is always that business of learning Japanese...
...baseball fan can linger nostalgically over these moments, precisely collected in Five Seasons, as if they were old family snapshots. Angell's love of the game is infectious; it is friends like him, Max Lapides, Don Shapiro, and Bert Gordon that will keep the sport safe from Howard Cosell, the Big "A", and all the other forces threatening to transform the subtle pleasures of baseball into just another entertainment. --Seth Kaplan