Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baseball is on top now among competitive sports. Basketball is ugly. Hockey is merely cool, and football is weird. The kind of baseball being played today is as good as that of days gone by, and we are filled with the sense that teams are playing for the fans again. This type of play is what we deserve. This is a sport worth supporting. Spectators almost forgot to demand quality. BEAU TIMKEN, Founder National Spectators Association San Francisco...
...disgraceful that baseball, a sport abounding with overpaid players, graces your cover while the virtual holocaust of famine occurring in Sudan is tucked inside. It is shameful that a sport and its millionaire players can warrant more of TIME's attention than 2.6 million starving Sudanese, of whom 350,000 may be facing death. KRISTIN CAM Springfield...
Your list of 20th century baseball records that won't be broken anytime soon [SPORT, July 27] should have included Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski's astonishing 1966 mark of 161 double plays in one season. JOHN T. BIRD Birmingham...
...bike design was part of larger design fields. The 1923 BMW R32, with its clear, lean triangular geometry, is one of the most perfect expressions of Bauhaus sensibility ever devised. There were Art Deco machines too, with swooping exaggerated fenders, such as the early (1922) Megola Sport or the mighty, lumbering 1948 Indian Chief. The BMW and the Indian are, in fact, the poles of motorcycle design: one stripped down, the other elaborately faired...
Even before the release of BASEketball, I did not entertain hopes of winning my wife over to the view that frizzball was a serious competitive sport. In the more than 30 years since its invention--at a summer house, on a day when it was too cloudy to go to the beach--her kindest description of frizzball has been, "It was the dumbest thing I've ever seen...