Word: batting
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Aside from Mrs. Schlafly's earnest arguments, various mixtures of props and propaganda have been marshaled against ERA. In Ohio, anti-ERA women handed legislators silver bullets to illustrate their conviction that they can take care of themselves without a constitutional amendment. In Minnesota, opponents tried to bat ERA away by handing out red fly swatters to legislators. In Oklahoma, Democrat John Monks helped defeat the bill by preaching from the Bible. "The good book says a woman should serve her husband," he told his colleagues. Arkansas State Senator Guy Hamilton ("Mutt") Jones put the matter a little differently...
...Communist China, which is now in the U.N. The Empire State Building is no longer the tallest building in the world. The World Trade Center is. Eighteen-year-olds can vote. The New York Giants will soon play in New Jersey. In the American League, pitchers will no longer bat...
...genuine superstars. In 18 storied seasons, Clemente was named the National League's Most Valuable Player once (1966), led the league in hitting four times, won a dozen Golden Glove awards for fielding and was elected to the league's All-Star team twelve times. His lifetime batting average of .317 was the highest among all active players. His finest hour came in the 1971 World Series when, with a blistering .414 average at bat and assorted marvels afield, he all but singlehanded defeated the favored Baltimore Orioles. Such seasoned managers as Dick Williams of the Oakland...
...came his first time at bat for the Pirates in 1955. It should have come a season earlier, but Clemente was the unwitting victim of a hide-and-seek game played by the old Brooklyn Dodgers. Son of a sugar-plantation foreman in Carolina, a suburb of San Juan, Roberto was spotted by Dodger scouts when he was 19 and quickly signed for a $10,000 bonus to keep him out of the clutches of their archrivals, the New York Giants. Well aware of his potential, the Dodgers sent Clemente to their Montreal farm team where, by using him sparingly...
Sparrow. Clemente quickly became one of the most feared scatter hitters in baseball. Standing a full yard away from the plate, cocking his extra-long bat and twitching his neck like a nervous sparrow, he was a notorious bad-ball hitter who would rather swing at a wild pitch than settle for a walk. Opposing pitchers went crazy trying to figure out his weakness. In one game Cincinnati Reds' hurlers pitched him inside, down the middle and outside, and he hit successive home runs to left, right center and right field. "The big thing about Clemente," Giants' Pitcher...