Word: player
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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They call him "the Chicken" because he walks and runs as if he has a lead on-deck circle warm up bat stuck up his behind. But Fred Stanley, the New York Yankees' utility infielder, does not look like a chicken. Stop laughing; Fred Stanley is my favorite baseball player...
There have occasionally been stories about the younger Reagans, and occasionally embarrassments. Oldest Daughter Maureen, 39, sometimes gets headlines for her ardent support of the Equal Rights Amendment, which Reagan just as ardently opposes. Second Daughter Patti, 27, attracted attention by going around with Bernie Leadon, former banjo player with the Eagles. And when Younger Son Ronald, 22, became a dancer with Manhattan's Jeffrey II Company, the training troupe for the Jeffrey Ballet, gossip columnists began raising eyebrows and talking of family hostilities. "How embarrassed is Ronald Reagan [really] about his ballet-dancing son?" leered the New York...
...three prep schools, Mike became a good enough football player to be offered an athletic scholarship at Arizona State, but he turned it down ("I played the game for fun"), tried a few courses at the University of Southern California, then took up speedboat racing. A crack-up a few years later tore his back muscles, dislocated both hips and persuaded him to try another vocation. His father, newly elected Governor, was concerned. "Dad kept asking me, 'What's your future going to be?' " he recalls. "I'd tell him, 'I'm a late...
Back there, she drifted through a couple of jobs, then drifted away again with a guitar player she met at the county fair. They settled in Santa Cruz, and formed a rock band that allowed her to play around in a rubbed-raw Janis Joplin style. After she married the band's manager, her luck turned all bad. He broke his neck in a diving accident and was paralyzed for three years. The band broke up. Her father died...
Though the sun did not shine much, a couple of players did. Bjorn Borg, 24, rolled to his fifth straight title, setting a record of 35 consecutive match victories in Wimbledon play. Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 28, the most graceful player to take Centre Court in a generation, outclassed Chris Evert Lloyd to capture her second Wimbledon title...