Word: starter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the standouts were white-shirted second-stringers too. Quarterback Pete Berg moved his squad with the kind of ease that must have made starter Ric Zimmerman jealous. In the first quarter, Berg marched his men to the one and lost the ball on downs. Ten minutes later he took them to the seven, where a field goal try was blocked...
IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Raymond (Perry Mason) Burr stars as Robert T. Ironside, a paraplegic who serves as a civilian consultant to the San Francisco Detective Bureau. For a starter, he takes a crossword collection of puzzling clues and fills out the solution to a race-track robbery. Premi...
...nation, there undoubtedly is a strong, agile, fiercely competitive youngster who could be the best tennis player the world has ever seen. This youngster himself may never know it. Or even care. Little that surrounds the game of tennis today is likely to appeal to him much. For a starter, there is the scoring system, in which 1) "zero" for some reason is "love," 2) one point counts as ten, or 15, or merely "advantage," and 3) a "set" may be six games or go on forever. And then there is the hypocrisy of a sport in which amateurs refuse...
...lasted nine innings against them-and three of those lost. The potent hitting also helps to cancel out a couple of Cardinal weaknesses. The No. 1 team in the National League ranks No. 2 in committing errors afield. Nor is their pitching much to rave about. No St. Louis starter...
Consider their game against the California Angels on Wednesday, for instance. Darrell Brandon, their starter, had been bombed, predictably enough, and Boston was trailing, 5-2 in the seventh inning. The Sox had had a ten-game winning streak shattered the night before, and 31,000 onlookers at Fenway Park were beginning to think that the bubble was ready to burst...