Word: batted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that eminence by three seasons but has already beaten him to pasture by eight. Displaying tenderness publicly for the first time maybe in 44 years, the great roughneck laid his head on Helms' shoulder and cried, bringing Petey Rose out of the Reds' dugout on the run. His bat-boy uniform has had to be let out a few times in the twelve years since Petey was three. As they wrapped their arms around each other, the father seemed the child...
Fifty-seven years to the day since Cobb pinch-hit and popped up in his final major-league at bat, Rose stroked a clean single to left center on a 2-1 slider from Eric Show in the first inning of a 2-0 victory over the San Diego Padres. "You missed a good ball game tonight," Rose told President Reagan over the phone. For some reason, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President Chub Feeney missed it too. Not only did Rose score both runs and make a defensive dive for the final out, but unbelievably...
...Warner Bros. squad, a giant radio in the bleachers begins to blast out the driving theme song from Miami Vice. Inspired, Tartikoff slaps a double, leading NBC to a four-run inning. The team's "music manager" puckishly announces that all who have not hit safely must henceforth bat to the somewhat less blood- quickening theme from Punky Brewster...
...show is unlikely to become a hit on a network in shambles. Further, as Tartikoff notes, "a producer coming to NBC knew he might have to run against Dallas or The Love Boat. That's part of the problem of being last--you don't get to bat against your own pitching. There was one thing we could offer good producers, though: that they could make the show they wanted to make." That promise applied to Steven Bochco in 1981 even as it does today to Steven Spielberg. "I started my career directing TV," Spielberg says, "and my shows were...
...librarian and sports historian who worked at the New York Public Library from its opening in 1911 until 1953, the last ten years as chief of its vast main reading room; in Hartford, Conn. The author of monographs and a book on the history of ball games, Ball, Bat and Bishop (1947), he was an early and authoritative debunker of the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839, contending that the origins of the U.S. national sport go back many centuries and that the game had been played in recognizable form since the 18th century. The Official Encyclopedia...