Word: batting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shaking reached their peak, the spectators fell silent. After it finally stopped, the relieved and unhurt crowd broke into a cheer. "That's San Francisco," said an admirer of the city. "They cheer an earthquake." A fan scribbled an impromptu sign: THAT WAS NOTHING. WAIT TILL THE GIANTS BAT! After the public address system lost power, police in squad cars used bullhorns to tell the fans that there would be no game and that they should move slowly toward exits. As they left and looked north, they could see a plume of black smoke rising into an otherwise clear...
...bats--wood ones, of course. There was this one bat (Johnny Bench model, 30-ouncer) that I made sure was always properly placed in our team's equipment bag. I almost hit my only real home run (you know, when the ball actually goes into the trees on no bounces) with it. The pitcher was this short loudmouth who looked like Emmanuel Lewis with a James Brown hairdo. I hit the ball into the center field trees and began my first true home run trot, just like the big leaguers. But as I rounded second, the umpire told...
...Comets jumped out to an early lead, but we did load the bases up with two outs. The guy who replaced me behind the plate was up. I was on deck, trying to adjust the grip of my bat so that it would lessen the pain in my thumb. He struck out, and before I could turn around and get my glove for the top of the inning, Coach ran up to me and said something like this...
...player most likely to give the Giants fits is left fielder Rickey Henderson, 30. All he did against Toronto was reach base on 14 of 23 times at bat, score eight runs, drive in five more, hit two homers and steal eight bases in as many tries. On the base paths he drove Blue Jay pitchers nuts. Like Canseco, Henderson is hardly humble. "I'd say I'm the decade's best lead-off man," he declares. "If people feel I'm one of the best who ever played the game, that's nice to hear." Opposing players call Henderson...
...baseball fan of today has become a self-contained contradiction. He has evolved into an historian of the past and a critic of the present, clutching to the past tighter than Bo grips a bat. For the baseball fan, the past is perfect, and the present and future serve only as horrific reminders of decay...