Word: turf
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...Expos have apparently not yet decided where Stenhouse will play. He spent most of the minor league season at first base, though he closed it out with his familiar turf in left field--both spots the Expos are strong at Jim Fanning, who oversees the club's farm organization, yesterday raised the possibility that Stenhouse may play in right field or fill in occasionally at first...
...lifetime. Last year's contest will enter the history book for two reasons. Harvard's 45-7 romp set a school record for points scored against Yale. And a Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternity prank--in which a hydraulically-powered-balloon bearing the Tech's initials popped out of turf in the middle of the game--set an MIT record for most points scored against Harvard. This year's classic will be special as the 100th playing of The Game...
...little more than 20 years ago, the national limelight was focused on the University of Mississippi as the turf for one of the greatest battles in American civil rights history, and on James Meredith as the leading soldier of the integration confrontation. Recently, in one of those neat historical coincidences, the incident, the institution, and the individual have all separately edged their way back into the news, and the combination has added an important perspective to the bold victory that was claimed in the fall of 1962 and how things have changed since...
...foot of an umpire's chair threatening to walk out of the tournament. In an injured voice, McEnroe said later, "I was warned for delay of game just for trying to put grass back into the hole I made." By the way, he had just gouged the turf with his racquet...
...complex was in full use all year in both modes--for basketball and other court sports, and for baseball practice and other turf-sports. "Most coaches agree," says Reardon, "that it's a very good Ivy League-type facility...