Word: williamsport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoak went to bed that Sunday night without reaching state health authorities. On Monday morning, they called him. Having heard that several Legionnaires had entered a Williamsport hospital with symptoms of something that soon came to be known as "Legion Disease," an official in the state's division of communicable diseases asked Hoak if he was aware of an unusual number of illnesses among his colleagues. Hoak's reply confirmed the worst: there was an invisible, impersonal mass killer on the loose. The knowledge rekindled, despite all the advances of modern medicine, humanity's ancient memories...
...nauseating to recall the charges that were bandied about before the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. The favorite was a team from Taiwan and its players were subjected to accusations ranging from questions about the participants' ages to how the team was chosen (supposedly Taiwan sent all-stars instead of its one best team). American parents refused to acknowledge that Taiwan's strength was legitimate. In fact, baseball has become Taiwan's national game, and Little Leaguers are lionized, while baseball has certainly lost its preeminent position on the American sports scene...
When Outfielder Carolyn King, 12, tried out for the Orioles, an Ypsilanti, Mich., Little League baseball team, she beat out 15 boys and qualified for a starting position. Not long afterward, Little League headquarters in Williamsport, Pa., cited its rule barring girls from league teams and threatened to withdraw the Orioles' charter. Ypsilanti's city councilmen issued a counterthreat...
...LAMBERT Williamsport...
Pittenger came to Harvard from Brown, where he had been Director of Sports Information for four years. A former newspaperman on the Williamsport, Pa., Gazette and Bulletin, and the Hartford Times. Pittenger has long been active with Little League baseball and the YMCA...