Word: tanglefoot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among New York's baseball fans, who have had little solace since the decline of the Yankees began four years ago, a quiet hysteria was developing last week. Before their unbelieving eyes, the tanglefoot New York Mets were turning into a team of superlatives. As they beat San Diego 5 to 3, at week's end the Mets were riding an eight-game winning streak, longest in their eight-year history. Their 26th victory against only 23 losses raised their percentage to .531, their highest ever.* The streak also propelled the Mets into second place in the National...
...frontier boy in ante-bellum Kansas, Cody seems to have gone to five schools, to none for very long, fell into the company of badmen called the Jay-hawkers, stole horses, developed a taste for "tanglefoot," and woke up with a hangover in the Union Army. Scholar Russell is well dug in behind about 500 footnotes and a bibliography of 259 items, but perhaps the reader should look for the odd bits: the unforgettable character who used his slain enemy's ear as a watch fob; the horse thief who won Bill's admiration by running 18 miles...
...reached out one-handed for a wild pitch, knocked it 360 ft. over the leftfield wall. But First Baseman-Outfielder Howard may not even be with the Dodgers after the roster is slashed: he lacks polish, still has trouble with change-up pitches, goes after bad balls, is a tanglefoot in the field. And the World Champion Dodgers can ill afford the sort of mistakes Howard would surely make if they are to keep their title against strengthened opposition. The top three challengers...