Word: dodgerism
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...laugher. A choker. A squeaker. A heart stopper. The four-game series in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium had everything a baseball fan could hope for. It was high August, but the lead in the National League West had changed hands twice in four days. It was high August, but the teams sweating it out from game to game were not just the plump, lordly Dodgers and the once mighty Cincinnati Reds. For San Francisco has risen from the dead, and to Giant fans, at least, sweet are the uses of resurrection...
...ding-dong race. Giant fans, regarded as an endangered species likely to be spotted only on beaches, at discos and in therapy groups, are flocking to Candlestick Park, breaking all attendance records (1.3 million, nearly doubled since last year). Now they dance in the stadium after victory, howl for Dodger blood and scream their affection for a new-found love, Pitcher Vida Blue. "Bloo! Bloo! Bloo...
Besides the various college squads, Harvard got some difficult challenges from minor league squads. The batsmen tied the Red Sox farmhands 5-5 on March 24 and beat the Pirates' minor leaguers 7-0 the following day before being put in their place by the Twins bushers and Dodger Triple-A stars, 10-0 and 17-0, respectively...
What a heart-warming sight for this World War II veteran's tired old eyes: an ex-Marine from the ghetto taking the boxing title away from the world's richest and most famous draft dodger...
With that increase to egg him on, Glistrup kept up his antitax campaign, though he was scarcely, as he claimed to be, the most celebrated Dane since Hans Christian Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard. Before the court verdict was pronounced last week, the irrepressible tax dodger declared: "If you ask me what would crush my vitality, I believe it would be the judge's not-guilty verdict. That would hit me harder than a guilty verdict. My psychological power comes from fighting a battle in which I've been unfairly, horribly and absurdly treated." He got his wish...