Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baltimore Orioles' Chuck Thompson was the radio phantom of my boyhood, and even Chuck would delay his account sometimes. In the hiatus between crack of bat and disappearing home run, Chuck was ruminating. Only when he was ready would he ejaculate, "Go to war, Miss Agnes." (While my point is correct, this is an exaggeration. Thompson reserved that homespun judgement for only the most momentous occasions, like back-to-back homeruns by the Robinson boys...
Pinball has been entrapping its victims for longer than you would think. The ancestor of the modern machine is the bagatelle board, a little known game that consisted of a flat board on which one shot a ball with a cue stick or a bat into a maze of holes and bumpers...
...that Aaron is closing in on 715, his fans are growing restless. Two weeks ago, after Aaron hit Nos. 708 and 709 against the San Diego Padres, the California crowd roundly booed Padre Pitcher Mike Caldwell for striking Henry out on his last time at bat. After a rash of racist hate mail early this year, Aaron has been receiving nearly 2,000 letters weekly from such varied admirers as moonstruck teen-agers ("We love you, Hanky-poo") and Alabama Governor George Wallace. NBC stands ready to interrupt its regularly scheduled programs to show Aaron hitting Nos. 712 through...
...pants, and two sandwiches in a brown paper bag, he took his first train ride and joined the Indianapolis Clowns, a barnstorming black team. He played shortstop for $200 a month. Looking Aaron over one month later, Braves Scout Dewey Griggs was startled to find that he was batting cross-handed, a handicap that every schoolboy learns to avoid. The scout advised Aaron to switch to the standard grip, then watched as Henry collected seven hits, including two home runs, in nine times at bat...
...Ruth's home-run record that year was greater than the team total of 14 of the 15 other major-league clubs. Yankee attendance ballooned to nearly 1.3 million, from 619,000 the previous year. The crowds came to watch the power and grace of the Babe at bat; they came to cheer his peculiar pigeon-toed trot as he rounded the bases after clouting one into the stands...