Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost from the beginning, novelists have gone to bat for the game. Ring Lardner saw baseball as the great American comedy-look through the knothole and you found uniformed counterparts of Huck Finn and Charlie Chaplin...
...powerful Crimson artillery brought out even bigger guns for the second game, unleashing a 15-hit barrage. Bill Larkin carried the big bat for the Yardlings in that game as he blasted three hits and garnered three RBIs in his four trips to the plate. The onslaught saw six men slam extra-base hits. The scoring parade would have been even bigger had the Crimson not left a whopping 13 men stranded on the basepaths...
...Saks Fifth Avenue to Women's Wear Daily: "The last time we had the long lengths, even the stock market went down." Bob Sakowitz, executive vice pres ident of the Sakowitz store in Houston, agreed: "I can't and I won't stand for another bat tle of the hemlines." But by week's end, most buyers had convinced themselves that things might turn out all right. Many of the styles did expose part of the knee, and there were enough variations to of fer a wide choice. Skirt orders by American buyers were running ahead...
Time was when the first sound of spring was the solid thwack of bat meeting ball, as major league baseball play ers gathered at sunny Southern retreats to limber up for the coming season. In recent years, that traditional ceremony has been muffled by noisy arguments about binding arbitration, boycotts and walkouts. Last year the players staged a 13-day strike that caused the cancellation of 86 regular season games. This year, just before preseason work outs were scheduled to begin, the team owners struck back by refusing to open the training camps. No ballplaying, said the moneymen - not until...
Welcome to Andromeda is another matter. The hero (David Clennon) is one of nature's ignominious errors. He is totally paralyzed except for his fingers and his head. His bed is a movable crypt. On his 21st birthday, his mother, a vampire bat whom we never see but whose oppressive presence empties the room of breathable air, has gone off to buy him some presents. She has left him in the care of a Southern nurse (Bella Jarrett). She, it develops, is an alcoholic who once gave a patient the wrong medicine. He, it develops, wants the wrong medicine...