Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lost in the shuffle of homers, runs, and strong pitching was the fine defensive game turned in by catcher Rich Trembowicz. Trembowicz "had a whale of a ballgame" according to Park, and his diving catch of a foul pop near the Harvard bat rack in the top of the eighth was the big play in the field for the Crimson yesterday...
...Evans (Godfather I and II, Chinatown, Love Story) was in Miami filming Black Sunday when he met CBS Sportscaster Phyllis George, once a North Texas State cheerleader and Miss America of 1971. Although the thrice-married (most recently to AM MacGraw) Evans had firmly declared that "three times to bat is quite enough," Bob, 46, and Phyllis, 27, were married last week on the lawn of his Beverly Hills mansion. In a specially composed ceremony the minister sang: "Together you step from the darkness/ The sun is beginning to rise/ You are living the questions together now/ Finding answers...
...been running ball clubs since the 1930s, building, inventing, promoting, hustling in unpretentious, wholly individualistic ways. He devised a moveable fence in Milwaukee, which helped home-team hitters, and he put fireworks in the Cleveland Scoreboard to salute home-team home runs. He sent a midget to bat in St. Louis, and offered live lobsters as gate prizes to his fans. Critics said he turned baseball into a circus. Replied Veeck: Was there anything wrong with the circus...
...thanked everybody. Then he spent two hours going over the game, pitch by pitch, with Bob Lemon, his manager, and two coaches. Ralph Garr was still swinging at the first pitch too often. He had to be reminded to wait for a strike every time he came to bat...
Santos-Buch and Halas both drove in a pair of runs for the day, with the latter enjoying a 2-for-3 day at the dish. Mike Stenhouse and Dave Singleton both continued their torrid bat paces, as each went...