Word: batting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure seemed unendurable, he started hitting home runs at a pace never before seen: seven in eight games. The weekend before the broken record, the McGwire alert was sounded: a press corps 600 strong went to St. Louis, McGwire's 10-year-old son flew in to be bat boy, and it seemed that everyone in the world with the last name of Maris had to put his or her life on hold to sit in Busch Stadium. "He put more pressure on himself that day than any other time I've seen him," Tony LaRussa, who has managed McGwire...
...PEDRO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic--This is where the fantasy begins, the town that produced so many major leaguers. And for local kids with a glove and a bat, inspiration comes nightly on TV as they watch one of their own slugger Sammy Sosa...
...hope," said Jose Richardson, caressing a baseball bat Tuesday night as he waited in vain for Sosa to hit home run No. 63. "When we see what Sammy has done, things seem possible...
...guilty of concerns his wife and daughter, not the national interest. What he is guilty of is having had an illicit affair with a woman half his age and then trying to cover it up by misleading us all and letting his friends and allies go to bat for him. All of these actions are truly reprehensible. But they are surely no justifiable cause for the removal of a sitting President...
...that these are the good old days--the days of damn Yankees, of pitching phenoms like El Duque and Kerry Wood, of a glorious Griffey, surely of the mad bombers McGwire and Sosa. We may have to wait 20 years--when, say, Matt McGwire, now 11 and a weekend bat boy for his father's team, threatens to hit 100 homers in a season--for reality to set in. Then the geezers will sigh and say, "Ahhhh, remember the glory...