Word: bradenton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...perfect day for baseball. Now if only the baseball had been perfect. At McKechnie Field in Bradenton on the Gulf Coast, the midweek weather might have been auditioning for a Florida picture postcard, but the hometown Explorers committed three errors, looked orphaned on the base paths and lost by nine runs. After the game, Wayne Garrett, the former New York Met, who entered the lineup in the eighth inning, was asked if he was exhausted from playing. "No," Garrett sighed, "but I was tired of watching...
...Kaat, probably the best fielding pitcher in history, a collector of 16 gold gloves, is leaning back on a bench in Bradenton, the first Pirate to arrive for the day's game. He is the most experienced major leaguer of all, 25 seasons, 26 if he latches on with Pittsburgh or some other team this year. This appears unlikely. Frankly, his seventh big-league uniform, bright yellow with black stripes, is not his particular favorite. "I feel like a school bus with lips," he says. But he expresses no self-consciousness trying...
Throughout its 41-year history, Merrill Lynch & Co. has tried to bring Wall Street to Main Street. By any measure, America's most bullish brokerage house has succeeded. From Bellingham, Wash., to Bradenton, Fla., 75% of all Americans live within 25 miles of one of Merrill Lynch's 476 offices. As a result, the company is bigger than its three closest publicly held competitors-Shearson Loeb Rhoades, E.F. Hutton and Dean Witter Reynolds-put together...
...rush hour on a foggy morning in Tampa Bay last week, and traffic was heavy on the 15-mile-long Sunshine Skyway, a chain of five bridges and six causeways that links St. Petersburg with Bradenton and Sarasota. Thundershowers and fierce winds lashed the bay from time to time. Suddenly, at 7:38 a.m., the Summit Venture, a 609-ft. Liberian-registered freighter that had been heading for Tampa to pick up a cargo of phosphate, smashed into a bridge abutment. A 1,300-ft. stretch of roadway trembled violently, then ripped away from the bridge. Steel and concrete crashed...
...Bradenton...