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Lawrence Taylor, the New York Giants' most wanton pass rusher, almost swooned on national TV at the sight of a new hinge atop Theismann's right sock. Joe looked up and told a ring of Giants, "You guys broke my leg." Human nature being what it is, they mumbled apologies. Theismann being Theismann, he proclaimed, "I'll be back." Football players being football players, Linebacker Harry Carson said, "Not tonight...
Veeck, who died last week of a heart attack at 71, was easily the most colorful baseball man never to play the game. A happy rebel against "the simple pieties of baseball," Veeck limped along on an artificial leg, dreaming up outrageous stunts to lure fans to the ball park. He installed the first exploding Scoreboard, moved the fences at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium in and out depending on the strength of visiting teams, and once gave away six pigeons to an elegant fan simply "to answer the burning question of how a dignified man would hold...
Back when Berry was the favorite receiver of Johnny Unitas and just about everyone else, his attention to minute detail was as much a part of his lore as the one leg shorter than the other or the feeble vision and sensitivity to light that sometimes required him to wear the only football helmet ever equipped with sunglasses. On the road, Berry actually carried his own bathroom scale to be sure of a consistent reading. If he played best at 182 lbs., he did not intend to be 181 or 183. Unitas still marvels at the diving catches Berry insisted...
...second base, Hal's original position. Almost no one remembers McRae, 39, the definitive designated hitter, ever having any place in the field, although he was once a gloveman nimble enough to be nicknamed for his favorite brand: Wilson. Old Cincinnati Reds still call him that. Until splintering a leg in the '60s sliding into home, he was slated to be a primary cog in the Big Red Machine but ended up a legendary figure only among the other players...
...speed as the news departs Missouri, Leonard was never called to any All-Star games. Away at his quickest pace in May 1983, the invincible-looking pitcher with the pirate-red mustache was dispatching a routine strike to Cal Ripken of Baltimore when Leonard's left knee (his landing leg) imploded and he disappeared. As sport usually calculates these things, this scarcely qualified as tragedy, even when lengthy surgeries and lost summers followed one after the other. Besides the memory of nearly 2,000 honorable if unheralded innings, Leonard had a guaranteed long-term contract to fall back...