Word: bake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that's the secret; these people, these scientists and entertainers and aluminum recyclers and french-fry-buyers and little shriveled kids with iron braces on their feet, maybe they can all solve their own problems, or at least make themselves feel a little better, by pouring all this awesome bake sale-hair-cut-a-thon-door-to-door-backyard-carnival energy into affirming loud and clear on nationwide tube all their values and habits and virtues and petty vices. If only everyone looked like them, and spent their time like them and ate and shopped where they did and listened...
...Carew. Pete Rose. Johnny Bench. Fred Lynn. 5. Cincinnatti's Ray Knight. 6. Lee Lacy. 7. Sandy Koufax. Denny McClain. Jim Palmer. 8. Bobby Bonds. 189 in 1970 9. Catfish Hunter: Minnesota. 4-0 10. Walter Johnson. Gaylord Perry. Bob Gibson. Nolan Ryan. 11. Phillies. Pete Rose. Bake McBride. Gary Matthews: Braves: Bob Horner. Chris Chambliss. John "the Count" Montefusco. 12. Vida Blue. 1971. 13. the St. Louis Cardinals. 4-0 14. Willie Stargell broke Mickey Mantle's record of 1711 in 1978. 15. In 1967. Jim Lonborg of the Red Sox struck out 246 batters to win the crown...
...hair was a rhinestone tiara. The carnations she had shamed Jed into sending were tied on her wrist. She was overcome with pride and had to blink back tears. This was the moment each Ingenue had been working for all year. This was the whole glorious reason for the bake sales, the car washes, the raffles. She glanced with a proprietary smile at Jed in his rented white dinner jacket. He wore a ruffled shirt, and a plaid cummerbund and bow tie. Across his chest was the purple sash that identified him as an Ingenue Escort. He was grinning...
Attention, cookie monsters, the secret is out! Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies are so tasty (and so very, very profitable) because Wally Amos talks to them. "I give them words of encouragement," he confides. For example: "Come on, you guys, bake!" That strategy has not only made Amos famous, but it has made his bakery a $250 million-a-year enterprise in fewer than six years. And now the Smithsonian Institution has added some frosting by representing Amos in its business Americana collection. In a Washington, D.C., ceremony, Amos formally gave the Smithsonian his trademark Panama hat and embroidered shirt...
...Yankees. The Phillies could muster just a single unexhausted arm after the catfight with Houston, Rookie Bob Walk, 23. When the Royals jumped off to a four-run lead, courtesy of two home runs, they seemed ready to roll. But Philadelphia, helped by a three-run homer from Bake McBride, answered with a five-run burst its next time at bat and took the first game...