Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Valley, Minn., traveling with the Twins, and watching seven games in Minneapolis, Chicago and Milwaukee. But it was not all work. When Ted Williams was expected to stop by for a visit, Witteman called Carew on the phone, disguised his voice, and said, "This is Ted Williams. If you bat .400 this year, I'll break every bone in your body." (Carew was not fooled by that pitch, and had a good laugh...
...baseball with a bat. Crack...
...CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE BAT by ROBERT WHITING 247 pages. Dodd, Mead...
...than made up for his scrambled syntax, but even when his arm died he still knew how to play the game. One day in the tail end of his career he found himself on first base as a pinch runner in the late innings of a crucial game. The bat cracked and leather trimmed the grass, skidding into a textbook double play. Only Dean's head and the ball arrived at second in the same painful instant, and Dean rolled onto the bag unsure of whether his hairline was still in one piece. Out came the stretchers, taking...
...explains, because "you can't say 'baseball trivia'...it's a contradiction in terms. It's antithetical." Bert, a realtor in Oak Park, Michigan, keeps two sets of figures on his desk in September, 1973: the number of days remaining in Nixon's term, and AI Kaline's lifetime batting average calculated to his most recent at-bat...