Word: yogi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disputed double in the inning as his shot hit the foul pole in right. The umpire immediately called it foul, but then seemed to change his mind, setting off a game-delaying argument between the umps, Gormley, Park and the irascible Eagle coach Eddy Pellagrini, who sounds somewhat like Yogi Berra when he's riled...
...Colony. That leaves the people who look inward, the mystics. Thompson approves of the effort of Yogi Gopi Krishna and German Physicist C.F. von Weizsäcker to meld Eastern wisdom with Western science. Such a union represents Thompson's ideal of Pythagorean science, involving "cosmological thinkers for whom art, religion and science are different idioms of the single language of contemplation"-in short, what Thompson regards as a means to the new planetary culture...
...Mets are definitely one team that gained over the winter. At long last, that deadwood centerfielder Willie Mays decided to hand-em up for the benefit of both Yogi Berra and his jealous teammates. No longer will the crowd roar when Mays gets up from the bench to get a drink of water--there won't be any more standing ovations for a few cuts at the air. But as long as Baby-Face Seaver and the rest of his no-hit, no-field comedians continue to come to the park, the rest of the league will be hard-pressed...
...looks like another season of six .500 ball clubs battling for post-season playoff honors. But if everything goes as planned, it appears that the Mets will give it their usual slow start and then catapult into first place during the final weeks of the season. However, if Yogi's battalion falters, look for the Cards to slide into the New York power vacuum...
Inside, Walton has converted a portable bar into a health-food stand: bottles of apple juice, jars of honey, and sacks of fruit replacing the bourbon and Scotch. An enormous water bed dominates one corner, and a photograph of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation, sits in a frame on his desk. The only visitors Walton receives are "the friends who accept me for what I am." They include his girl friend Susan, a tall, attractive brunette whom Walton has been dating off and on since his sophomore year. Other regulars include teammates Greg Lee, Tommy Curtis...