Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reggie Jackson is in a bad slump and will only bat against right-handed pitchers who pitch with a mitten on their throwing arm, according to soon-to-be-vacationing Billy Martin. Furthermore, Martin said that southpaw starter Ken Holtzman will pitch only on the Jewish holidays of odd years, which is also apparently the only time Craig Nettles (.197) plans on getting a base...
...Transylvanian ghoul. Many of the tourists who climb secret staircases and descend into the dank depths of dungeons wear bags of garlic round their necks-the traditional method of warding off the vampire's bloodsucking kiss. In the spirit of the occasion, local schoolchildren wave their arms like bat wings and bare their budding fangs for visitors' cameras...
Anyone who has ever read a comic book, watched a rerun of Superman or tuned in same bat-time, same bat-station, knows, despite sweating palms and churning stomach, the superhero always wins. But lingering childhood confidence in the media creation cannot quite assert itself against Superfolks. Mayer is not Alfred Hitchcock or Agatha Christie, and when one turns a page anticipating a crucial revelation and finds instead a new, unrelated chapter, one can cringe and say "Aha. He's trying to build suspense--cheap trick." The simple reason Mayer used moth-eaten tactics is that he can use them...
Jenkins then glided home from third with the winning run on a passed ball. "I've been in pressure situations before during the year, but I usually walked. Today I felt real good. I had a bat in my hand the whole game and I was ready. The guy threw me a lollypop and I knew I had it," he said...
When Cincinnati Second Baseman Joe Morgan comes to bat, his eyes widen noticeably, a palpable sign to the man on the mound that Morgan is studying him with the intensity of a leopard crouching in a tree. On the bases, he measures the movements of the game just as keenly: taking the millisecond advantage, then streaking toward a stolen base, judging the parabola of a teammate's hit before springing around the bases, sliding in just ahead of the throw. Joe Morgan, the National League's Most Valuable Player for two years in a row, is surely...