Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington's bat forced the A's to switch Rudi to first base. As a rookie last season, Claudell hit a solid .285. During the World Series against the Dodgers, he rocketed to .571. As of last week he was leading the team in hitting with a .317 average. A line-drive specialist, his 47 RBls left him only four behind Team Leader Jackson, who says, "Claudell is just the best young ballplayer I've ever seen come into the league." The owner of the A's, Charlie Finley, is quick to agree. During a game...
...Lynn himself, and all-American nothing-too-flashy, cocky but thrilled-to-be here folks golden boy for so the press likes to portray), does little to deter these flights of fancy. Hell, he's an old-fashioned talent, graceful as a gazelle, and when he swings the bat your heart leaps out of your chest. Thank God he's white...
...Viet Nam War and Watergate have at long last been lifted, enabling Americans to concentrate more on their own private concerns. The press has rediscovered the local story and local people. Big news in Omaha last week was the planned construction of a plant to produce synthetic bat manure in near by Kansas; in St. Louis it was whether to expand the parking space for the Blues hockey-team fans. Odd and unexpected signs of tolerance are appearing: at a New York Mets game, grizzled Met fans actually cheered when the Scoreboard showed the once reviled Yankees moving into first...
...Elton's trademarks is pounding the piano with his feet; another is throwing his piano stool in the general direction of the audience (but actually into the pit). He has been known to dye his hair orange or pink for some gigs, to bat tennis balls into the crowd, and once in Los Angeles he hired actors to dress as Queen Elizabeth, Frankenstein and Elvis Presley and wander around the stage. Whether this represents a display of unquenchable energy, the response of a sometime wallflower suddenly encouraged to be the life of the party, or just overripe showmanship...
...spectators were a bit startled to hear that "Better and Better had cleared the Normandy Bank (jump no. 16) and was travelling like a bat out of hell." But generally propriety ruled...