Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider their game against the California Angels on Wednesday, July 26, 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 on-lookers at Fenway Park were beginning to think that the bubble was ready to burst...
...been far out of first place since the season began. With a young team, it was easy for a winning attitude to develop, and Williams did not have to work any psychological miracles. When Boston went on a road trip and came back home with a 10-game winning streak, this winning attitude turned into a virtual mania...
They may have to, because none of the four teams seems capable of launching a winning streak that would allow it to pull away in the final three weeks. The Chicago White Sox have solid pitching, but they also have a team batting average of .229. The Boston Red Sox can hit, but their pitching is so shaky that Manager Dick Williams is talking about using his lone ace, Righthander Jim Lonborg (record: 19-7), every two days. The Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers need heavy slugging from their superstars, Harmon Killebrew and Al Kaline. Yet as of last...
Passing Panic. The paradoxes abound. Sandy is part American Midwesterner, part American bohemian. She is soft, cuddly, feminine-yet a blue-streak cusser and a four-letter woman. She looks like the idealized schoolteacher that boys remember falling in love with. Her skin is transparent. Her features, with one exception, are almost perfect. Her windswept hair is a lovely honey color...
...abandonment of college-bred tenets and concepts to cope with realities in the concrete jungle. Both antagonistic forces-a bunch of surly, underprivileged kids on one side and a school administration of monolithic obtuseness on the other-abound in stereotypes: the unloved Fat Girl, the sullen boy with a streak of buried brilliance, the love-hungry spinster, the platitude-spinning principal and his vicious, misanthropic assistant...