Word: yogi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ranked 1-2-3 in the "trustworthiness" department were Stan Musial, 53, who has not played for the St. Louis Cardinals in ten years; Mickey Mantle, 42, who last batted for the New York Yankees in 1968 and New York Mets Manager Yogi Berra...
...match-ups had the potential for classic tests: Superpitchers Tom Seaver of the Mets and Jim Hunter of the A's, superior Shortstops Bud Harrelson and Bert Campaneris, Bullpen Stars Tug McGraw and Rollie Fingers, and, finally, two dramatically different managers and strategies. Yogi Berra had won the National League pennant by patiently waiting for the return of injured regulars and then sticking with one lineup down the stretch. Dick Williams had shuffled his mustachioed A's in and out all season in a blur of gaudy green-and-gold uniforms...
...Division were the well-muscled Cincinnati Redlegs, with the best record (99 wins, 63 losses) and some of the mightiest hitters in the league. Up against the Big Red Machine stumbled the New York Mets, living proof that baseball is still a game of inches. Two months ago, Manager Yogi Berra was within inches of losing his job again (the New York Yankees dumped him in 1964) as the Mets floundered in the Eastern Division cellar, dispirited and haunted by injuries. After a spectacular September drive, the team won the division title by inches on the last...
Today, however, the Crimson will encounter a team that looks as little like UMass, B.U., and Columbia as Yogi Berra looks like Derek Bok. Cornell, probably the strongest team in the Ivies, will be the first real test of the Crimson's offensive and defensive capacities...
...metaphysics. Vietnamese peasants were distraught in the 1930s not because they wondered if Victor Hugo was a deity, but because French colonialism was destroying their traditional society. American young people today are not confused because they find it difficult to choose between the merits of the Guru and the Yogi, but because this country is rocked by a deep structural and ideological crisis, a crisis for which no group, gurus or socialists, have provided a reasonable explanation...