Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first frame, Santos-Buch beat out a bunt to the left of the mound, took second on a passed ball, moved to third on an infield hit by Mike Stenhouse and scored when Mark Bingham lofted a sacrifice fly to left...
...clear that the love that is evident within the family has given Claude enough ballast to steady him a bit. The movie's final frames show Claude not with a girlfriend but at a family picnic, watching his father and little sister play catch with a beach ball. The point is small, but not hard to see: for better or worse, the boy shown here will be a father, long after he has stopped brooding about being a lover...
...stamps, colored cardboard, reproductions of "museum" madonnas (literally, chocolate-box art) and type blocks. These were his toys. "I had from the beginning the large wooden type used for posters; so if later I made, for instance, a drawing of a man holding up a question mark by the ball, it's not such a great invention?it was something known to me." And so letters presented themselves to Steinberg as things, and "I have always had a theory that things represent themselves. The nature of the question mark is questionable; you always wonder how come the upper part...
...often identify myself with the pitcher who pitches a perfect game. Before falling asleep I strike out a side, then in the next inning I initiate a triple play, then I go ahead at bat and hit a homer. All these fantasies, based on the true glory of base ball! And why? Because a major league player has to be special; he must have a certain lyrical quickness and luck that belong more to the poetic than to the athletic part of life. Baseball is nearer to art because of the expert solitude of the player...
...holes, and then took a nine on the tempestuous par-five 16th. He tried to park a three-wood on the green, but after taking a lusty rip at it, he finished up like a knight at Agincourt who has just missed connections with his mace and chain. The ball disappeared, heading due west...