Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly the most explicit. The network recommends "parental discretion" in the opening credits, and as the show unfolds, that cliche takes on new meaning. There is graphic violence, to be sure: bloodied heads; a lone youth being attacked by three others, one of them swinging a baseball bat; an unflinching look at a junkie mainlining. And the street toughs and ghetto dwellers who provide the sole narration converse in four-and twelve-letter words that many movie theaters, not to mention TV sets, have never amplified. To view and hear all this is not easy, but it should...
...best start since 1946, when Ted Williams and Dom DiMaggio returned from World War II to win the first Red Sox pennant in almost three decades. Says one Sox fan: "They can be down six runs in the ninth inning, but if Rice still has a chance to bat, nobody leaves...
What crowds wait to see is one of the smoothest righthanded swings in recent baseball memory. With his bat held letter high and his head arched over a cocked shoulder, Rice explodes with a compact swing. Says he: "My strength comes from my wrists and legs. But then I bring my left shoulder back so that, all my momentum jumps out to the ball. It's like a rattlesnake ?he coils and then he springs out." Rice springs eternal: his force is lethal to pitchers, who admit that the rattlesnake swing is the most formidable in the big leagues...
...following year, Rice was removed from left field, and Carl Yastrzemski returned to his old haunts from first base. Rice became the designated hitter, and while he still stroked 25 home runs, his average slumped to .282. "You can't stay loose just sitting on the bench waiting to bat in the first, fourth and eighth innings," analyzes Rice. "Staying in the game mentally is even harder...
...baseball team has not yet named a captain, as it remains active. The bat-captain, as it remains active. The batsmen will face an as-yet undetermined foe round of the regional NCAA playoffs...