Word: battering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important titles; he is a photographer living for the moment with few possessions. He -- representing the people -- yearns for her, despite having found a young lover. She -- the government -- is enticed by a young love but rejects him. In the end, he is alone, using a pickax to batter at the wall. On the other side, she pulls back her possessions, trying to protect her way of life. "Won't you help me?" he yells...
...added, "We got to do what's right. I don't think they really understand things." As for baseball, Briscoe predicted, "The game will stay the same, no matter what. It was here before we came, and it'll still be here after we're gone." The final batter, rookie Ernie Young, with just 31 trips to the plate in the big leagues, tried to display the composure of a veteran when he said, "Everybody wants to see baseball. But this is part of life. Things don't always go the way you'd like...
...27th, the Yanks got four runs off late-season call-back Mitch Williams. In the home half of the inning, Houston loaded the bases but had exhausted its roster. Who would come to bat? Finally, a wheelchair appeared on the field and a nurse rolled Jeff Bagwell to the batter's box. Mulholland threw a fat fast ball down the middle...
...with a delightful idiosyncrasy. In 1919 Wahconah was laid out with day baseball in mind. Home plate faces west -- precisely the wrong direction for Mets games that now begin at 7 p.m. As the sun slips toward the horizon, it slides into the line of sight between pitcher and batter. This is the only instance in organized baseball when an umpire can be accused, without rebuttal, of being blind. But more to the point, the batter too is blinded. At that juncture the umpire decrees a sun delay, and sunny songs issue forth from the park's loudspeakers. The game...
...Battered batter produces stunning grand slam for Giants fans...