Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Matthew's ordeal began last Oct. 10, when a bat flew into his bedroom and bit the sleeping child on the thumb. Determining from tests that the bat was rabid, doctors began almost immediately to administer vaccine made from rabies virus grown in duck embryos and then killed. For 15 days, they injected massive doses of the serum into the muscles of Matthew's abdomen, a painful prophylaxis that usually prevents the disease if begun early enough. This time, the effort failed. By the end of October, Matthew complained of muscular stiffness and dizziness; by early November...
...says one scout, "that's it. You can't keep him out." Though Southern Cal's Smith missed six games this season because of injuries, he will not be overlooked by the pro recruiters. Rearing up like a grizzly, he is tall and rangy enough "to bat down passes like flies." He may need some seasoning, but the pros feel that he already compares favorably with Big Brother Bubba of the Baltimore Colts...
...avail-two is the limit. Strangest of all were the wives who deliberately didn't watch parts of the game. Twice the Orioles scored while one of the wives was away from her seat. After that, a contingent of Oriole spouses absented themselves every time Baltimore was at bat. They must have been doing something right...
...homing ability of some migrating animals is uncanny. A bat living in Arizona's Colossal Cave was removed 28 miles and freed; it found its way home in less than four hours. A coho salmon raised in a California hatchery was shifted to a different stream when it was a year old. At spawning time the next year, the fish appeared back in its old tank. From the sea, it had found and ascended its home stream, crossed under U.S. Highway 101 by culvert, swum through a storm sewer and up to a flume, finally wriggled through a right...
...crowd of 2,000 collected to watch. The contest was highlighted by charges of police brutality when a line drive from a cop's bat stung the pitcher. The kids tried to get the cops' crew-cut pitcher ejected for throwing a greaseball, and the police puffed on imaginary marijuana cigarettes and floated around the base paths. Law-and-order prevailed 24-5, but a rematch was scheduled, and there is talk of having the competitors join an amateur softball league...