Word: nelson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
GOALS: Harvard--Faught 5, Predun 3, Ward 2, Egasti 1, N. Forbush 1, Wigglesworth 1. Middlebury--Heffernan 2, Nichols 1, Erdman 1. ASSISTS: Harvard-N Forbush 4, Nelson 2, Predun 2, Faught 1, Fee 1, Trusty 1, Wigglesworth 1. Middlebury--Gifford 2, Manning...
...DIED. Nelson Morgan Davis, 72, eccentric Canadian businessman; of drowning; in Phoenix. A native Ohioan who moved to Toronto in 1929, Davis amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million with a string of manufacturing and transport companies. He once paid $10,000 to have a meteorite that landed near Cleveland crushed and sent to Toronto to cover his driveway with its dust-free gravel and keep visitors from tracking dirt into his living room...
...savors that wonderful, old feeling and talks about it with the same earnest enthusiasm he would invoke after a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth of a meaningless August game with the Phillies. Nelson made his love for the Mets as distinct as the not-found-in-nature color of one of his unlimited collection of hideous sport jackets...
...Mets fans loved him. Despite his endless, needless journeys up and down the range of audible sound, despite his awkward promos for Ball Day and Banner Day, and despite the resolute sameness to every Nelson broadcast, he was always the Mets, that most flawed of baseball teams...
Like the banished Jim Woods in Boston, Nelson came with the team, like the stick of gum with a pack of baseball cards--the game of baseball changes and, as inconceivable as a Met season without him sounds, opening day is April 2. It's opening day number 18 for the Mets, the first ever without Lindsey Nelson...