Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stop complaining or God might not grant my wish to get the fungo bat surgically removed from Mickey Rivers's behind...
This sport is my favorite. I can appreciate seeing other people suffering, all of them knowing that for the next two weeks it's do or die. You're Bernie Carbo up at bat with two men on and two out. You're Muhammed Ali in the fifteenth round of his bout with Leon Spinks (almost...
...Wurmstedt revisited the hollow and found that 2½ months without paychecks has caused hardship for the miner shut made them even more obstinate. His report: ft "IP his is a war," says Miner Mike Adkins, 34. "The stockpiles of coal are down, so we're up to bat. I'm tired of hearing about people being laid off because of the coal shortage. The hell with 'em. I haven't worked for 72 days, and I'm mad and disgusted like everyone else on this creek. But we got to get a contract...
...renewal of the leftist alliance. (Evidently embarrassed, Mitterrand denied Carter had said any such thing.) Marchais charged that his erstwhile partner had made a treacherous "right turn" in connivance with "forces beyond our frontiers." Accusing the Socialists of duplicity, he said that he was "irresistibly reminded" of the doubletalking bat in a La Fontaine fable who masqueraded as a mouse or, when it proved more expedient, as a bird...
Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb, Jesse ("the Crab") Burkett. Others use the book to settle arguments. Who struck out more than any other player? Mickey Mantle, who whiffed 1,710 times during his 8,102 official times at bat. Which pitcher gave up the most bases on balls? Early Wynn, who issued 1 ,775 passes in his 23-year career. (He also struck out 2,334 batters.) Many encyclopediasts pass the winter months compiling their own alltime, all-star teams. Unfortunately, most of the casts are depressingly alike: Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Cy Young, et al. Recently...