Word: batting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some guys can just hold an audience. In baseball, no matter the score, fans have never left the park until Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Willie Mays or Junior Griffey has had his last turn at-bat. And at Wrigley Field, even if the Cubs trailed by 10, no one ever left before Harry Caray sang Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Only then was the experience complete. Hey, Elvis, wherever you are--your pal Harry has left the building...
...most of those in khakis are standing to the side of the dance floor. Some stand, arms folded, in front of an industrial-size fan, while others sit underneath a large black bat that hangs on one wall...
...when E.F. talks, people listen. "I'm a genu-wine, Holy Ghost, Jesus-filled preachin' machine this mornin'!" He can woo a dying man to the Lord, but he can't heed his own gospel. He menaces his frazzled wife (Farrah Fawcett) and clubs a rival with a baseball bat; when the man falls into a coma, E.F. shows no regret or remorse. He flies away, landing in Louisiana and hoping to build another church. Jesus' retailer needs a new store...
...were ragged and dirty. His mother and stepfather would thrash Robert and his five siblings with wooden sticks and electric cords. At age five, he was hit in the head with a brick. At 10, one of his brothers hit him so hard on the head with a baseball bat that the bat broke. Another time, his mother smashed a dinner plate on his head. None of these injuries was ever treated. His IQ has been measured at 74, which is considered semiretarded. None of this information was presented at Carter's original trial for the robbery and murder...
...Courage at the bat Two flinty veterans faced something more frightening than a 100-m.p.h. fastball: cancer. The Orioles' Eric Davis returned from chemotherapy for colon cancer to bat .310 in September. Brett Butler of the Dodgers, who had throat cancer, hit .283 and stole 15 bases. They win our vote for Comeback Heroes of the Year...