Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of all the carnage was that the Angels played less than .500 ball after the mid-season All-Star break and limped home with fewer than 90 wins. Even the great Carew is not playing up to par. This year his batting average sagged to .317, mostly because his hand has not yet healed. Still, there are bright spots, which management hates to mention because every silver lining seems to contain a cloud. For one, Southern California now has something to do besides hunt for gas stations: Angels' attendance was up nearly 50% from last year...
...this third novel (after Last Night at the Brain Thieves' Ball and Preservation Hall) Spencer builds a model of emergent love pursued to its obsessive extreme. The author constructs his tale around an apposite metaphor, catastrophic fire. Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod sets some newspapers alight on the porch of his beloved Jade's house after her parents have forbidden him to see her for 30 days. He wishes to attract attention and instead nearly incinerates Jade, her brothers and parents...
...People showed a lot of mobility in the game," Harvard coach Bob Scalise said yesterday. "They were really working for the ball--making nice passes and switching fields. Also they have been working on heading so it was good to get some head balls...
...Field hockey is an active running game which provides the unique challenge, or maybe I should say limitation, of trying to maneuver a very small ball with only one side of a stick," Kellogg says...
...standout performer, she has learned to love a fast-moving game that often includes big traffic jams around a very little ball. Why does she put up with the crowds if she hates them? Because Elaine Kellogg thrives on competition...