Word: batting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meant, number one, to provide [the new students] with friends right off the bat, and second to create what's called a learning community," Truitt says...
Carl Morris, statistics professor, Harvard: Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and Mark McGwire's record of one homer per 7.27 at bats will last well into the next century. The best home-run hitters, playing in Colorado, might hit more than 70. But McGwire hit his 70 in just 509 at bats, with 33% more homers per at bat than Sammy Sosa and 17% more than Ruth's previous major league record...
...Darryl's prognosis for a full recovery is good. But we're worried all the same. For years Darryl stood as a youthful beacon of strength in Shea Stadium's right field. After defeating substance abuse, he won us back as a Yankee. Now he faces his toughest at-bat yet. Our eyes are on the bleachers. GEOFFREY C. UPTON
While there, McGwire came to bat and drilled a foul ball into the Cubs' bullpen. The Cubs' pitching coach saw my A's shirt and hat and said, "You want this...
...have a spirited, enlightened discussion when both sides have set up their snow forts on each side of the lawn, nobody venturing forth into the middle lest he or she be pelted by a barrage of threats, epithets, and slurs, all delivered with the subtlety of a baseball bat over the head...