Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Bill Stern, 64, the sportscaster whose fanciful anecdotes ("And that little Italian boy with the baseball bat is now the Pope") earned him the nickname "Aesop of the Airways"; of a heart attack; in Rye, N.Y. A 1935 auto accident cost him a leg and made him a "legal" morphine addict for nearly 20 years, but Stern climbed to the top in radio and then TV sports coverage. His career crumbled when he suffered a nervous breakdown on the air while broadcasting the 1956 Sugar Bowl game for ABC-TV. He then kicked drugs and made a comeback...
...Vampire Bat. Ozzie, played with translucent poignancy by Tom Aldredge, is tortured by lost youth, lost potency, lost possibilities. He cries out for a past when he wore no straitjacket: "I was nobody's goddam father. I was nobody's goddam husband, and I could run-nobody could run the way I could run-run for the sun." That is pain distilled into compassion, a special gift of David Rabe's, Harriet (Elizabeth Wilson) is one of those mothers who likes to think that she only "lives for others"-as selflessly as a vampire bat. David...
...investors and brokers who are not members of large stock exchanges. Smaller brokers fear that the resulting commission cutting would bring about a catastrophic loss of revenue. For the moment, each side can hope that the SEC chairman will decide in its favor. But when Casey finally comes to bat on the main issues, he is sure to alienate some Wall Streeters. He will need all the popularity he has won among the others in order to get his decisions accepted...
...different. Pirate Righthander Steve Blass, relying on a humming fastball and a sneaky slider, held the Orioles to one run and two hits through the first seven innings. The Pirates had two runs of their own when the last half of the seventh inning began with Roberto Clemente at bat, the 37-year-old rightfielder playing his 17th season with the Pirates. He bounced to Oriole Pitcher Mike Cuellar for what looked like a routine out. At least Cuellar thought so, until he caught sight of Roberto streaking for first like some revved-up rookie. Hurrying, Cuellar threw wildly...
...World Series history. After erupting for three quick runs in the first inning, the Orioles seemed afflicted by some sort of night blindness when the Pirates brought in Relief Pitcher Bruce Kison, 21, a sidearming rookie brought up from the minors in July. Lean and whippy as a fungo bat, the 6-ft. 4-in. Kison allowed only one hit and shut out the Oriole musclemen for the next six innings. The Pirates, led by Stargell, Centerfielder Al Oliver and the irrepressible Clemente, pushed across two runs of their own in the first inning and another in the third...