Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That night, I shambled over to the ABC Disco with some friends I made at the Winterhaven Mall. It was a "request" disco filled with pretty sedate people--slumped and smoking and going to the bathroom--except for a bunch of minor league ball players propped up behind the revolving merry-go-round bar playing "flick the cockroach." A big Thurman Munson clone walked up to me wearing a Harley-Davidson t-shirt and yelled in my ear that I wasn't drinking enough. A "Mother Harley" tattoo embellished his hefty forearm, set flatly in front...
...pitched well though," he said after a pause. "I got high for my last five games and I've been putting the ball just where I want...
...People think it's a big deal being in pro ball, but it's just like anything else. It's frustrating because things never turn out exactly the way you want." He was drunk and stoned, and he sat there all fizzed-out waiting for me to open the door...
Then, with an 0-2 count on catcher Tim Dachos, Stewart made his next pitch a little too good. Dachos chopped a bounding ball down to Burke St. John, and the shortstop bobbled it long enough to let everyone be safe...
...scoring position with one gone in the first, your best hitter coming up, and their pitcher a little wild--hey, it changes the whole complexion of the ball game," Park said afterward...