Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high, hard fastballs and hit drives that were things of wonder. At first, when he was a rookie training in Phoenix, Ariz., no one believed it. The thin atmosphere, they said, made the ball carry farther. Yankee Manager Casey Stengel had one look and roared: "Stratmosphere my eye! This kid doesn't need help. He hits the ball over buildings...
Riding back to the Square, I thought how disappointed I was by the evening. In remembered how much I used to enjoy wrestling when I watched it on T.V. as a kid. How funny I thought it was when a lady wrestler grabbed a cup of coffee from a spectator and scalded her opponent with it. I didn't find that so funny...
...Eliot's three contestants won their bouts in the finals. Roger Guthrie decisioned Winthrop's Kid Grossman in the 130-pound class, and Andy Grainger was unopposed in winning the 135-pound class...
Harvard was undefeated so far that year. But Army, boasting several of the East's finest boxers and a coach named Kid Glover, in itself intimidating, was expected to win handily. Two Harvard upsets, however, turned the tables...
Then I realize that his analysis pretty much got it. I'm rich and had a whole lot of opportunities as a kid and so that's why I'm at Harvard, or that's why they thought I was "smart" and so am at Harvard. And he's poor, has about zero alternatives, of which working for Harvard is the best one. Yeah, I said, he's right. I can't really argue with that. It exists. So do I. So does...