Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yellow-white leather gleamed, and you picked it up and untied the sneaker lace wound around it to keep the pocket good over the winter. The tennis ball, which had anchored the pocket since September, popped out once you put it on, but it felt good and strong after its seven-month hibernation...
...flapped the fingers together and pounded the pocket with fist, then tennis ball. Curiosity to see if "the glove still worked" and if you could "still do it" coaxed you outside and thus unofficially declared the outset of your season...
...went out to the driveway and started throwing the ball against the garage door. Sure, the snow was still lingering in the corners of the driveway, and sure, it was only a tennis ball, not the real thing with the stitches and the swishing sound it makes when you throw it. But those bounding balls, those one-hoppers, those occasional line drives, and those lazy flyballs off the roof were all unmistakeably baseball, and you were unmistakeably playing...
...pound weight--1. Pellegrini (P) 59-10; 2. Lenz (H) 57-1; 3. Ball (H) 55-9; 4. Rostomily...
...second half, the Crimson made a couple of short-lived runs at the Quakers but never managed to close the gap at critical moments. After five minutes of play. Harvard climbed to within six points of Penn and had possession of the ball. However, the hoopsters missed two excellent opportunities to score...