Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Batter up! It's time for the season's first pitch to Rotisserie League Baseball, which in just seven years has grown from a rookie gleaming with promise into a full-blown phenom with all the tools. No one knows exactly how many fantasy leagues have sprung up across the country since Journalists Dan Okrent and Glen Waggoner invented the game at the now defunct La Rotisserie restaurant in Manhattan, but guesses run to more than 5,000. Statistical services catering to the voracious needs of Rotisserians, for whom the stats are the life, have flourished. There are even books...
Harvard ace Lora Rowning faced 25 batters in seven innings, while throwing only 14 balls in a 72-pitch effort. She recorded seven strikeouts and didn't walk a batter until the final inning...
...eighth Bentley finally broke through for a run against Rowning. With one out, Rowning walked Falcon hitter Patty Flanigan and Rowning's wild pitch moved the runner to second. The next batter, Vicki Westover, then doubled to give the Falcons their margin of victory...
...Wally Joyner sprang onto the American League scene last year, posting several outstanding rookie numbers by the All-Star break. Between banging out singles and covering the bag on defense, Joyner spent a good deal of his 1986 seasons on first base. For the batter, a hit represents only one of eight ways to reach first. Name the other seven...
...didn't let her greenness show. After running the count to 2-1, Polikoff-who had come on in relief of veterans Lora Rowing and Janet Dickerman-retired the Smith batter on a fly ball to centerfield...