Word: batted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skin against unpolished timber, so the T-85s he orders by the cord from the Hillerich & Bradsby Co. in Kentucky are unstained, pure white bolts of mountain ash, legendary Louisville Sluggers. In order to keep his grip without gloves, the Kansas City third baseman takes tar and slathers every bat like a small town honoring a scoundrel. About the middle of the club, maybe a little higher up than the label, Brett cultivates a sticky reserve for when his palms get especially clammy, like when Goose Gossage is pitching...
Stenhouse joined the team's expanded ros- ter at the very end of last year, and tailed to get a hit in his one time at bat...
DIED. Vicki Morgan, 30, sometime model and the late Alfred Bloomingdale's mistress, whose unsuccessful but much publicized $5 million palimony suit against the former Diners Club chairman featured lurid descriptions of his sexual fetishes; of head injuries suffered when she was bludgeoned with a baseball bat by her boyfriend, Marvin Pancoast; in North Hollywood, Calif. Pancoast, 33, an unemployed office clerk who had lived with Morgan for three weeks, told police that they had been arguing over "finances" before he attacked her while she slept...
Just swinging a bat could have done it, the way Kittle swings it. In a Double A league at Glens Falls, N.Y., two years ago, Kittle had 40 home runs; at Edmonton, Alta., in Triple A ball last year, he hit 50 homers, two in one inning. Over the two seasons, Kittle amassed 90 home runs, 247 runs batted in and a composite batting average of .336. At 25, he reached the major leagues this year to some acclaim...
...Acres in Jersey City being the first. In an unusual result for fighters of any day, he kept some of the money. Before settling into the window table at Jack Dempsey's Broadway restaurant in Manhattan, he tried a little barnstorming, some refereeing. Always he was available to bat out an occasional dilettante, like Writer Paul Gallico or Financier J. Paul Getty. After he closed the restaurant in 1974, Dempsey returned full time to being heavyweight champ...