Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaking into the insurance business or learning microphone manners, he confessed that "I can't play every day anymore. It's not that you get tired, but your body just doesn't come back as fast as it did. You think you can swing the bat, but you're just a fraction off. The balls you used to hit out of the ballpark you're fouling off. I need more sleep now. Sometimes I'll lie down at 9 p.m. and sleep till...
...obvious, so predictable, a syndrome. The high school bigshot comes to the Home of The Bigshots and gets his ego smashed right off the bat. So he spends most of his conscious energy working out a strategy to piece it back together. A woman, of course, is prime target for his peacockery, meat for his projected fantasies. But if she slights him, however inadvertently, he takes it as a threat...
...Justice Department considered prosecuting him for a possibly illegal campaign contribution in 1972. Rodgers promptly made these difficulties known to the White House, where W. Richard Howard, an assistant to then Presidential Counsel Charles W. Colson, fired off a memo to John Dean asking him to go to bat for Rodgers at the Justice Department. Rodgers was never prosecuted. He is currently recuperating from a heart attack at Southwind, his estate on Maryland's Eastern Shore, but expects to be subpoenaed in the Agnew investigation soon...
...Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which he continued to run until 1945. His press parties at Indianapolis on the eve of each Memorial Day 500 were notorious; liquor flowed until dawn, and Captain Eddie-as he liked to be known -customarily called for order by hammering the table with a baseball bat...
...Brooklyn Dodgers in 1953, one New York newspaper headlined: ALSTON (WHO'S HE?) TO MANAGE DODGERS. The question was understandable. Walter Emmons Alston's entire major-league playing career-as a fledgling first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1936-had consisted of going to bat exactly once and ingloriously striking out. As a manager, he had labored in the obscurity of the minor leagues for 13 years. Now, 20 seasons, six pennants and four World Series championships later, the wonder is not only his longevity but the fact that, at 61, the wily old mentor...