Word: baseman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening round). Beside him, three local zanies were wearing doll masks on their heads and munching Smoked Soft Squid. In front of him, two sporting- goods salesmen from Ensenada, Mexico, were crying out Spanish exhortations to Tino Martinez, the U.S. baseball team's first baseman. On every side, four separate groups of cheerleaders, led by men in suits, were throwing themselves through furious gyrations in support of any and every team, jumping around in every direction and flailing their arms at 78 r.p.m. The Man in the Stands looked at the men on the field...
Mike Greenwell then hit a grounder to the right of first baseman Terry Francona, who let the ball glance off the tip of his glove for a run-scoring error. Todd Benzinger drove in another run with a single to right, and Burks followed with a bases-clearing line drive to the gap in left center that made...
...from ) sportswriters like Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn); Third Baseman Weaver (John Cusack), an appealing victim; and Kid Gleason, their manager (John Mahoney), who is suspicious of his charges yet sympathetic to them. The rest of the club, including Charlie Sheen as Hap Felsch, is reduced to bit-player status in its own drama...
Bush spent five years at Andover, since he lost part of his junior year to a bad flu epidemic. He reached his adult height early, which left him rather gawky when at rest. But he was a graceful first baseman, and he was the agile star center of the soccer team, a team with a proud history at the Phillips Academy. In a pompous book entirely devoted to sports there, it is noted, "Poppy Bush's play throughout the season ranked him as one of Andover's all-time soccer greats." In the 1942 class poll, he ranked among...
Furuya had been agonizing over his negotiations with the team's star players: Randy Bass, a bearded American slugger who led the Osaka-based team to victory in the 1985 Japan Series, and Masayuki Kakefu, a fierce third baseman once known as "Mr. Tigers." The ball club sacked Bass last month after he overstayed his leave in the U.S., where his eight-year-old son was being treated for a brain tumor. Kakefu, whose game had suffered because of injuries, wanted to retire. To make matters worse, the Tigers were at the bottom of their six-team league...