Word: batterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yankee fans have come to appreciate the ways their team makes gold out of lead. At the stadium they often function as a second Yankee pitcher whenever there are two outs and the official pitcher has two strikes on a batter. They rise, roar and clap to ride that third strike in. Indian outfielder Dave Justice showed less appreciation of the Yankee fans before Game 6, by telling reporters that New Yorkers could not get more menacing "unless they showed up with Uzis." True to their spirit of murderous fun, the fans did show up with Uzis, making posters with...
When I stepped to the plate in Little League, I pretended to be Mark McGwire. The opposing pitchers were supposed to fear me as I approached the batter's box. Unfortunately, I did not always back up the image with performance...
...always approached the fielding of his position, which is truly scientific and has resulted in two well-earned Gold Gloves. George Will's instant baseball classic Men at Work chronicled the way that Ripken meticulously prepares for each hitter, using scouting to anticipate the batter's tendencies to allow him to get to balls otherwise out of his (limited) range...
...They tried to hit a Frisbee with a stick," she'll say. Not so. It was a broom. The batter, standing in front of an old barn in the backyard, tried to hit the Frisbee with a broom--no cinch, I can attest, when the pitcher's repertoire included an effective slice ball. Imaginary base runners advanced according to a formula having to do with logarithms. After that, the rules got complicated...
...climactic scene is a game for the Frizzball Championship of the World--which is, by chance, what we called all our games. The batter resembles me. The pitch is a slice ball. I hit it to the second garbage can--a 7.3-run homer. The game is won. I glance up to see my wife in the stands (well, all right, the backyard). She has been caught up in the excitement of the game. She is cheering wildly...