Word: batted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even casual baseball fans know the drears of the Boston Red Sox, those goats of fate, a team usually long on talent but short on luck and even minimal strategy from the dugout. The New York Yankees are another legend: power at bat, awesome pitching, managerial smarts to spare...
...over by cricket. But not the game of white-flannel elegance as it is played at the Marylebone Cricket Club in London. Oh, no! This is tropical, Technicolor kirikiti -- buxom girls in lemon yellow shirts and sky blue skirts thwacking around a homemade rubber ball with a three-sided bat, while supporters rhythmically chant and dance and beat vigorously on biscuit tins...
...moguls could take a roll on a picture and know that if it didn't work, it wasn't going to bring the studio down. There was a regular cinema audience. Today, as I learned to my cost at Columbia, almost every time you come up to bat, you're making a $20 million, $30 million or $50 million bet. That's not an environment that encourages risk or adventurous, creative decisions...
...decision of an outside arbiter governs each inning, each at-bat, and indeed, each pitch. Baseball relies upon official rulings to regulate the game and the on-field behavior of its players...
Junior Dave Cunningham then came up to the plate, and his at-bat seemed to last longer than War and Peace...