Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourth game, Gainey banged Defenseman Dave Maloney, 22, into the boards near the Ranger goal, stole the puck and tied the score. The playoff-wise Canadiens coolly put the game away in the sudden-death overtime...
Paced like a playoff, Chase the Game derives much of its immediacy from the life and language of men coming to painful maturity. Its power comes from the Ditter conclusion that skill on the playing field is not synonymous with character. There have been scores of books on the superstars of every sport; success Breeds fans. Failure has only a few aficionados, and Jordan is one of the finest. In Auden's phrase, he sings of human unsuccess, and in the song turns case his tories on the defeated into a kind of triumph...
...only New York Giant to make an out in the ninth inning of that historic 1951 playoff game between the Giants and the Dodgers...
...Harvard baseball team's hopes for an Eastern League championship and the accompanying NCAA playoff berth died yesterday at Cornell's Hoyt Field, where the Big Red defeated the Crimson...
...Harvard baseball team by sweeping Yale in a make-up doubleheader at New Haven yesterday, 9-1, 6-3. The sweep left Navy with a final Eastern League record of 10-4, which means that Harvard (7-4) must win its three road games this week to force a playoff...