Word: batted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign can generate as much passionate controversy as basketball. To Tar Heels, especially those in obscure backwaters like Washington (pop. 9,000), young men like Dominique Wilkins tend to be regarded as state monuments. Dominique is 6 ft. 7 in. tall. He can hang in the air like a bat and do things with a basketball that Dr. James Naismith, who invented the game, never contemplated. Like slam it through the basket from all sorts of odd angles, with such style that by the time he was a high school junior, sportswriters were already calling him "Dr. Dunk...
They seat six students, bound and gagged, in the middle of the plaza. There is an executioner wearing a black veil. He totes a padded wiffle-ball bat. The MC speaks into a homemade PA to the motley gathering of workers, bums and passers...
...William Holden still has the body of a 50-year-old. Or even less. Viewers can judge for themselves next fall when they watch Holden in The Earthling, a tale about an Australian bat-around-the-world who finally comes home to die. He stops along the way to take a beefcake bath-or in Holden's case, a sirloin splash-in an Australian stream. He also encounters Child Star Ricky Schroder (The Champ), who at nine has just lost mother and father in an automobile crash. What happens next is tearjerking. It also includes kangaroos and wallabies...
Emerging as a starter just this season, Casto or "Dirty John" as his teammates know him, has risen through the Harvard program in the traditional manner. Taking no shortcuts, he scratched and clawed his way up from the freshman and J.V. teams to play, behind Tom "Bat" Masterson last year...
...Stargell earns some $250,000 a year for his big bat and even bigger influence...