Word: batting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work on hitting and look to do things more aggressively with the bat," Haskell said...
...more films, both directed by their writers, that play games with baseball. David S. Ward's Major League is a rowdy, genially cynical comedy about jocks and Jills. Its fanciful Cleveland Indians team is a bunch of rejects from the Mexican, minor and California Penal leagues. Now coming to bat: the veteran catcher on his last legs (Tom Berenger), the Willie Mays wanna-be (Wesley Snipes), the pampered third baseman (Corbin Bernsen). And on the mound, a fastballer (Charlie Sheen) with control problems on and off the field. With this gang, in this comic fantasy, the Tribe can't lose...
Striedter says he told the two students who were planning senior bars in private rooms that they could either cancel the parties or move to public rooms, where tutors and a Beverage Authorization Team (BAT) would be present...
Among those masters who say they support public senior bars, there is a debate over whether to subsidize the additional costs accrued by making the parties public. Students estimate that meeting University rules that require a BAT team and police--as well as a temporary liquor license--cost more than...
...palm fronds rattle behind the right-field fence. The odors of peanuts, mustard and beer waft over the emerald green grass, and in the inebriating sunshine, laughter and catcalls issue from the bleachers. An eight-year-old boy waves a miniature bat, a bikini-clad college student ogles the first baseman, and a pair of guys in U.A.W. T shirts argue earned-run averages in the shade of an entryway tunnel. At the plate, a nervous hopeful up from the minors squares his batting helmet and prays to the puffy clouds above the orange groves: God, please send the next...