Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shifted to single sculls after college, won the national championship and a Pan American Games gold medal in 1959, Parker says: "What I look for is somebody with reasonable size and a very real interest in athletics." His favorite way of testing that interest is with drills like "stadiums"-races up and down the steps of the Harvard stadium, run at the rate of 50 times per rower per day. "Most of the things around here are boring as hell," grunted Stroke Ian Gardiner last week, as he hefted a 100-lb. weight over his head for the 19th time...
COACHES ALL AMERICA GAME (ABC, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). Top collegiate football players of 1966 clash when East meets West at Atlanta Stadium...
...young team with a young franchise in a young stadium surprises no one when it stands ninth in the league; the Houston Astros might even be tenth in the National League if it weren't for the New York Mets. What is surprising about the Astros is a trio of young play ers who are among baseball's best per formers so far this season. Rightfielder Rusty Staub, 23, a onetime bonus baby, is finally giving the Astros a neat re turn on their $100,000 investment: he ranks fourth in the league in batting with an average...
...Centerfielder Wynn, 25, looks like the Houston bat boy - until he swings a bat. Last month in St. Louis' Busch Stadium, Wynn became the third player in history (the others: Joe Torre and Willie Mays) to bounce a ball off the beer sign in left centerfield, 440 ft. from home plate. In Cincinnati, he hit two home runs over Crosley Field's 45-ft.-high Scoreboard - one of which carried all the way onto an exit ramp of the Mill Creek Expressway...
away. Three weeks ago in the Astro-dome, which boasts the deepest fences in the big leagues, Jim clouted three consecutive homers against the San Francisco Giants - each of which traveled at least 400 ft., unaided by wind (which never exceeds 1 m.p.h. in the enclosed stadium). Last week Wynn ranked second in the league in homers with 18, first in RBIs with...