Word: batted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dearly and McGregor, both of whom failed to go the distance last night, matched three-hitters through the first six innings. In the eighth, Maddox came to bat against McGregor with the score tied 1-1. During the season he had shared center field with Gree 'Gross, Von Hayes and Bob Dernier and had hit only four home runs. He was one of those unhappy Phillie role players...
...encouraging individualism, and yet know perfectly well that, powerless or not, individuals make up the world. Every mass unleashing in this century, for good or ill, may be traced to an individual choice. And even when the choice has overwhelmed the choosers, the solitary mind, like a bat in a cave, gropes about for its own directions. "History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes and kindle with pale gleams the passions of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide...
...successive league games, the crack Yankee Clipper had gone to bat 223 times, had made 91 hits (including 15 homers, four triples, 16 doubles) for a total of 160 bases...
Ruth's record this year is chiefly owed to Louis Gehrig. He too is a home-run hitter (47 for 1927). With Gehrig next at bat, pitchers dare not give Ruth a complimentary base on balls, hoping to dispose of his successor easily...
...parts were easy to write, they were not easy to play. Barry, 62, who had played macho characters like TV's Bat Masterson, was afraid of being too closely identified with a homosexual role. "People still call me Bat," he explains. "You really do become the part you play. In rehearsal, George and I didn't look at each other as a man or woman, but as someone we dearly loved. If I ever had a problem, I'd just think of my own wife." However he did it, Barry's portrayal of Georges is suave...