Word: batting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse and carved with demoniac exuberance, careens through the night like a colossal bat out of hell-but soundlessly, and in slow motion, so that it seems to be floating tunelessly through an interminable nightmare...
...which struck out the rabbit-ball theorists, leaving them to face the unavoidable reality of baseball 1961: the ball is flying into the stands more often simply-and entirely-because the man at bat is hitting it there...
...quack. "Just as the Anglo* goes to the folk curist only in the last stages of cancer when everything else has failed, the Latin American goes to the physician only after all else has failed," said Madsen. "He thinks as much of penicillin as we do of bat wings...
Curious Crouch. Hunched into his curious, knock-kneed crouch, holding his thick-handled bat like a broomstick (with his hands six inches apart), Cobb was a remarkably versatile hitter. He could bunt, hit line drives or ground balls, place his hits almost at will. Never noted as a longball hitter, he nevertheless led the American League in home runs in 1909 (with nine), once hit five in two consecutive games-a mark Babe Ruth never matched. Asked to compare Cobb and Ruth, Cleveland Outfielder Tris Speaker once said: "Babe was a great ballplayer, but Cobb was even greater. Ruth could...
...magician with a bat, Cobb was almost as wizardrous in the field; he once threw three runners out at first base from the outfield in a single game. And on the base paths he was dazzling. Swirling through a cloud of dust with razor-sharp spikes flashing high, Cobb gave baseball some of its most memorable moments. He stole 892 bases, 96 in a single season (1915). Three times he stole all the way home from first base, and once, recalls Casey Stengel, he scored from third on an infield pop fly: "Ty just waited until the infielder got ready...