Word: roster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second time in four years. Bobby Hackett was the only person to score points. Last year Larry Countryman joined Hackett on the All-America roster with a 12th place finish in the 1650-yd. freestyle. Three years ago Malcolm Cooper grabbed a 12th in the 50 free...
...option and sell his services on the open market; in compensation for loss of his services, his former team was awarded an amateur draft choice from his new club. The owners want to be able to pick a man from the raiding team's major league roster. In the players' view, such an arrangement would stifle the free-agent market that has made millionaires of home-run hitters and fastball pitchers...
...year span, the Expos won more games than any other team in the National League. Now, on the third try, Montreal is ready to challenge again, this time with that most coveted baseball contradiction: a team of young veterans. Only Ace Pitcher Steve Rogers remains from the 1973 roster, and most of the team (average age 27) has undergone its trial by fire in the big leagues, not down on the farm. Says First Baseman Warren Cromartie, the blithe spirit who plays team cheerleader: "Logic tells us that this is supposed to be our year. We've been maturing...
...before the season ended, Lundberg, a member of the Mormon church, decided to vacate his spot on the roster and, like many young men of his faith, go on a mission. "A lot of people think that the church makes us go, but in fact, it's up to each individual, and I really wanted to do it," Lundberg said last week, "Of course, if you grow up in Provo, where everyone else goes, there is a lot of social pressure...
During his junior year John was a member of the civic affairs club, and as a senior he was in the Rodeo Club, which organized barbecues, square dances and junkets to rodeos. In his yearbook John's roster of activities was scanty but unembarrassing, just as his senior-picture hair length seemed perfectly median, neither long nor short. Bill Lierman, the Rodeo Club's sponsor, recalled nothing untoward. Says Lierman: "He wasn't a rowdy. He got along fine with all the kids." And a sampling of schoolmates' reminiscences shows a consensus. David Wildman, the basketball...