Word: batting
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Just about every ball ever pitched, hit or dropped is recorded in its constantly enlightening pages. The record shows, for example, that in his 19 years as a pro fessional baseball player, Infielder Ernie Banks played in 2,528 games, had 9,421 official times at bat and logged 2,583 hits for a lifetime batting average of .274. The same volume also records a loser who had but one time at bat in the majors - and struck out. His name: Walter Emmons Alston...
...edition of the dictionary, the first since 1965, dropped 3.500 obsolete titles, such as bowling-pin setters, but added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...turned my oack and had to guess, I would have said that it sounded like someone had a baseball bat and cracked a concrete wall with it." Thus did National Basketball Association Referee Bob Rakel describe the roundhouse right from Los Angeles Laker Kermit Washington that sent the Houston Rockets' Rudy Tomjanovich to an intensive-care ward. With a broken nose, fractured jaw and skull, and concussion, Tomjanovich, a four-time All-Star and captain of the Rockets, underwent surgery at week's end and may well be out for the season...
Pruitt does not have to look far for company this year; the little guys are making it big in the National Football League. Dashing to touchdowns, leaping to bat down passes or darting past befuddled defenders for a crucial reception, the runts have provided some of the most thrilling moments in a season of slogging defensive domination. Among the best: the Houston Oilers' Billy ("White Shoes") Johnson (5 ft. 9 in., 170 Ibs.) of the end-zone victory dance, scooting past Chicago Bear defenders, then performing the N.F.L.'s first dwarf dunk-a triumphant spike over the goal...
...later Harvard goalie John Hynes decided to show off to the fans that yes, he is improving. Penn's Mickey Ball had Hynes point blank from left of the slot and fired a wrist shot which Hynes deflected up with his shoulder and then caught before Penn sticks could bat it in. Hynes made 24 saves on the evening and gave up his lowest goal total of the young season...