Word: balk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the ruling found that Rickard told the property's buyer, Arthur Abbott, that she had illegally converted the property. The board recommended that Abbott and his partner, Victor Balk, be ordered to restore the building to its original state...
...country where the private lives of public figures are veiled in mystery, Ott dares to ask questions that others only think about. What salaries do Soviet athletes earn? What sort of family life does an opera singer have? His guests may balk at the questions or try to evade them, but every honest answer is a small victory for openness. Says Ott: "I am sometimes accused of being too philistine in my approach. But I think such questions are exactly what viewers find interesting. Families, apartments and salaries are the only points where their lives touch and overlap with celebrities...
...suspended Cincinnati Reds Manager Pete Rose for 30 days and fined him $10,000 after an umpire-shoving incident during a game at Riverfront Stadium on April 30. This harsh treatment of Charlie Hustle did not go down well with many purists. Neither did the proliferation of balk calls made by umpires this season, a phenomenon for which Giamatti alone is widely -- if incorrectly -- blamed. An old rule had been elaborated: with men on base, pitchers now had to "come to a single complete and discernible stop" in their windup before hurling the old apple homeward. Discernible? What kind...
...modest, cluttered office at the National League's Manhattan headquarters on Park Avenue. "I was gratified by the response. I think it's healthy." But there were other suit-wearing guests at the Seaver celebration who . . . "O.K.," Giamatti concedes, "I am seen as the prime mover of the balk." And he goes on, somewhat wearily, to explain again that he is only one member of the rules committee, which decided last winter to make pitchers toe the line. Then he changes the subject. "Remember what Seaver did at the end of the ceremony?" After a brief speech, the future Hall...
...this ink can be blamed on Pete Rose or balk rules. Giamatti is too articulate for his own anonymity. Sportswriters have learned that Bart, as everyone calls him, will eventually deliver the colorful remark. It may take some hounding. He may try to put them off with a "Can't talk to you now, guy" or a "Later, pal," displaying the side-of-the-mouth brusqueness he adopts when feeling besieged. Never mind. Sooner or later, usually sooner, he will relent. Prod him with questions. Why has he been critical of those huge screens towering behind outfield fences...