Word: yogi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baseball writers began an early warm-up for next season's campaign by electing Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra the Most Valuable Player in the American League for the second year in a row and the third time in his career. Other three-time American League winners: Jimmy Foxx, of the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox, and the Yankees' Joe DiMaggio...
...decision in the 1955 World Series opener when Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson was called safe on a steal of home. Infielder Frank Kellert, who was at bat for the Dodgers at the time and in the best position to see the play, belatedly declared that Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra had tagged Robinson out. Kellert's delayed announcement was made after the Dodgers traded him to the Chicago Cubs...
...throwing arms in the majors. Only fast or foolhardy men will try to run on him when he gets a jump on the ball. Duke Snider in center can go get the tough ones. At the plate he takes a harder cut than either Campy or the Yankees' Yogi Berra, and he can hit the ball wherever it is pitched. Even a high outside ball, if Duke can reach it, will wind up in the leftfield stands. Junior Silliam, who broke in as Brooklyn's second baseman, will probably start in left field. He is about...
...American League pennant race showed no signs of slowing down. With homers by Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees kept a precarious hold on first place, took the initial game of a double-header with Chicago, 6-1. But the second-place White Sox bounced back, 3-2, thanks to Third Baseman Bob Kennedy's first inning, three-run homer. The split held the Yankee's lead to half a game. Poor pitching cost the Cleveland Indians a double-header with the seventh-place Senators (8-2, 13-4), dropped them from a first-place...
...Center's most technical work involves a study of Yoga and its direct connection to altruism. In one report, purusha, the pure divine energy of the Yoga system is defined chiefly as Love, in addition to knowledge and existence. The Yogi, whose basic exercise involves conscious and deliberate control over breathing, participates in the universality of Love by submerging his personality elements (body, emotions, habitual process of thought, etc.) In everyday life, the Yogi learn to abide by the law of Love through certain yamas (abstinences...