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...rest of the team is also absurdly deep and talented. Mery Rettenmund, Brooks Robinson, Boog Powell (who should rebound after a sub-par season), and a host of young talent form the minors should be enough to tie down Baltimore's fourth consecutive flag...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: CBS Reports | 4/15/1972 | See Source »

...time to fight some more. After lofting his 6-iron shot onto the fringe of the 18th green, he putted to within 18 in. of the cup and holed out a birdie four to win with four consecutive sub-par rounds: 69, 70, 69 and 70. In the short span of one month, Lee Buck Trevino?Mexican-American, grade-school dropout, ex-Marine sergeant and all-round hustler?had become the first golfer in history to win the British, Canadian and U.S. Opens in the same year. "Now," he cried, "maybe they'll consider me a good international player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lee Trevino: Cantinflas of the Country Clubs | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...earned-run average, is not the only one ducking line drives. The Mets' Jerry Koosman, who compiled a brilliant 17-9 record for the world champions last season, has won only two of nine starts. Fastballer Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals is struggling to improve a sub-par 4-3 record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Season of the Slugger | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

Andover, which has been considered a Harvard "??? club" in past years, was sub-par this year, and disappointed a small but ??? contingent of alumni and parents. One departing alumnus tugged at his pipe and moaned. "This is the worst Andover team in nine years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Icemen Smash Andover; Hynes, MacNanama Pace Victory | 2/12/1970 | See Source »

...victories, a 9-3 drubbing of Army, was expected. The Clarkson triumph was not, especially in light of Harvard's sub-par efforts of the previous week. Ma ched against a squad that had nearly everyone returning from the team that gave Harvard fits at Potsdam, and later, in the ECAC semifinals last winter, Harvard scored two early tallies on Clarkson goaler Bruce Bullock, one of the East's best, and added two more in the first two minutes of the second period, to coast to 4-1 into the final session...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skaters Win Three Games; DeMichele, Mark Injured | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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