Word: batted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
...economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
...bonehead move at the time, now looks like a bargain the Japanese would envy. The Atlanta Braves, which Turner bought in 1976, snuffled along in the gutter for years, then went from last place to first in their division this year and lost the World Series by only a bat's whoosh. And CNN, once derided as the "Chicken Noodle Network" for its low wages and amateurish presentation, is now the video medium of record...
...first four games, three were decided by only one run and all three of those games were won in the home team's last at-bat...
...gall to blame umpire Vic Voltaggio for "squeezing the strike zone." After Jack Clark, another multi-million dollar bust, struck out three times in an extra-inning loss, he blamed Morgan for being a lousy motivator. After left fielder Mike Greenwell attacked first baseman Mo Vaughn with a bat, Greenwell blamed the media for "blowing this out of proportion...