Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing, Lee's left arm is fine again after a little sorness and basically he's a ground-ball pitcher," Johnson explained. "He also has been a consistent winner in our ballpark...
Harvard took the first six places in the 2.4 mile race through the Andover sactuary, with Matt Boyer the winner in a time...
Even with these credentials, however Bayh was a surprise winner over second-place Mo Udall and third-place Jimmy Carter. The Indiana delegation had done little or no campaigning, while the Tennessee and Georgia delegates had plastered Carter's craggy smile all over walls, chairs, and their own chests, and the Arizona Young Democrats had hosted a crowded free-breakfast-with-Udall just before the vote. What seems to have made the campaigning irrelevant was the highly disproportionate number of delegates allowed from the different states...
...results of the straw vote were nothing more than decorative, like the garish gunfighters and naked bodies that gyrate on pinball machines. The scoreboard lit up in St. Louis and a winner was announced, but the machine was tilted the whole time...
Pitching is something else. Neither club has a 20-game winner. Lefthander Jerry Reuss is the best of the Pirates, and Don Gullett can go the distance for the Reds. But he probably won't. Cincinnati Manager Sparky Anderson is so quick to yank starters that he is called "Captain Hook...