Word: tags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a tag-team fight. For two weeks on the fickle waters of Rhode Island Sound, the four best twelve-meter yachts in the U.S. had at each other in a series of two-boat races that went on through light winds and lashing gales. In not one of the dozen races did the sailors concede anything-except a generous serving of backwind. The only thing officially at stake was pride, but for pride's sake, U.S. deepwater sailors put on a display of tenacity and tactics that had not been seen in a seadog...
...base "can raise the batting average of the man behind him in the line-up by 20 or 30 points." Explosion of Dust. It can also be considerably disconcerting to opposing infielders. Some runners start their slide halfway down the base path, thus presenting a good target for the tag. Not Wills...
...most important of the changes, Brooks said, is the abolition of the hand-touch requirement. According to previous regulations, a swimmer had to tag the end of the pool with his hand on each turn. Now he will only be required to touch the end with some part of his body...
...Olympics and foreign meets in general will still require the hand tag on turns...
...second baseman didn't get Adamec's flip to force Bernstein coming down from first. The ball bounced out into short right field and Bernstein never even hesitated as he took off from second, rounded third, and slid neatly into the plate just under the Tech catcher's futile tag...