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...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...
...work on hitting and look to do things more aggressively with the bat," Haskell said...
Junior Dave Cunningham then came up to the plate, and his at-bat seemed to last longer than War and Peace...