Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most home runs in a single World Series game and setting a new record for the number of home runs (five) hit during a series. In the process, he found a groove probably unequaled by any major league hitter ever: the last four times he swung his bat in the series, he hit home runs...
...Langella as a demonic force from the nether world, there is also a doomed lyrical romanticism, a nocturne by Chopin, infused into the play. Tall, slender, incomprehensible as magic, garbed in a cape of Stygian splendor, with a face sculptured in alabaster, Langella's Dracula is no flittering bat but the noblest prince of darkness-the fallen Lucifer-as the play makes elliptically clear, whom only the Cross and the stake can bring to his apocalyptic destiny. Langella has always been a spectral, neurasthenic figure onstage with a temperament of icy disdain. For him this is a role...
Youth Problems They wouldn't be running in gangs if they were my children. I'd be out with a baseball bat looking for them...
...gift for subtlety sometimes deserts him. In Vienna two years ago, he gave a radically nontraditional performance of that proud Viennese national resource, Die Fledermaus. It was almost predictable that a Russian might fail to exploit the sassy, lighthearted flavor of the classic, and sure enough, Rostropovich's overloaded Bat crashlanded into a nest of snapping critics, who almost declared war on the Soviet Union. Wrote the International Herald Tribune's David Stevens in one of the more merciful reviews: "A Slavic sour cream lay over the proceedings in place of Viennese schlag." In defense, Slava argued that he could...
...support from the rest of the team. Suddenly Martin himself was banging on the door. He was enraged to find his players with the owner. Steinbrenner calmed the group down, and the four men argued until 6 in the morning. Several lineup changes were agreed to: Jackson henceforth would bat cleanup, certain pitchers would rotate every fourth day, Piniella would become the daily designated hitter. One other change: the no-pay salary clause in Martin's contract would be dropped...