Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sitting in his mother's kitchen. "Now the doorbell rings. Go to the door and open it," Stapleton directed. "Who's going to be there?" asked the grown-up Jody, a bit frightened. Answered Stapleton: "Jesus is going to be there. He's got a baseball bat and glove with him. He wants you to play ball with him." Thus, writes Stapleton, "through the prayer of faith-imagination I slowly, verbally took six-year-old Jody through an entire ball game," with both Jesus and Jody going up to bat. Through further sessions, she helped Jody create...
...then Holy Cross came to bat and quickly scored four runs before Crimson starter Jamie Werly felt the first drop of sweat on his brow...
Dracula has many guises: bat, wolf and now, Truman Capote. Or so it would seem from the vibes caused by his short story in Esquire last November. Titled La Côte Basque, 1965 and taken from his unpublished novel Answered Prayers, the piece focused on a posh Manhattan restaurant and its haul monde clientele. For his cast, Capote chose some old acquaintances, including Jacqueline Onassis and Sister Lee Rodziwill, former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Heiress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as several other real people thinly cloaked in fictitious names. The author likened his gossipy story to a "minor...
...ducking out of the path of the ball a fraction of a second before it would hit him as it sailed in from the outfield. On the bullpen bench, outfielder Rick Miller and catcher Tim Blackwell engaged in a fierce game of hockey. Miller used the handle of a bat and shot a baseball forcing Blackwell to make some spectacular kick saves as well as a few tremendous diving saves. Blackwell also made good use of a rusty nail, poking his opponent to keep him out of the crease...
...hated to give them up," admitted Muhammad Ali. But the heavyweight soon kayoed his emotions. Thus on June 9, a pair of 8-oz. gloves and a terrycloth robe will join historical memorabilia like Babe Ruth's bat and Eli Whitney's cotton gin on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a great museum with its little cars and trains," observed the champ, who took time out in the capital to mug with a statue of Washington. "My gloves may be more popular," Ali added, referring to the mitts that in 1974 beat...