Word: bloopers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastern European blooper aside, Ford gave an adequate performance (see following story). The whole debate was a 90-min. slugfest, in which both candidates threw roundhouse punches-a sharp contrast to the first dreary confrontation. But last week's encounter was more style than substance. Both candidates showed something of a box-score mentality, with Carter ticking off the names of the countries he has visited and Ford listing the names of the foreign leaders he has met. Carter greatly overstated America's weaknesses in the world. Ford's inability to put across his Administration...
...pitch was by no means epochal, but like the approximately 505,400 other fastballs, curves, sliders, sinkers, spitters, straight changes, screwballs, blooper balls and knucklers that will be thrown this year in major-league games, it was an assertion of the baseball season's venerable rhythms, which have been springing up around April and falling off around October for more than a century. It was also a useful pitch, both functional and decisive. It takes something of an artist's bravery and knowledge to throw major-league pitches. A fan savors the lines they draw...
...occasional blooper to which every man who has ever donned the pinstripes falls prey, Hannon ruefully explains "sometimes while blowing the whistle I'd like to eat it. You know it's wrong but you try not to let them know it. All you can do is say "oh, oh, now I've got a selling proposition...
...Crimson got two more in the third when Sciolla's bases-loaded blooper to right--which probably should have been caught--dropped for a single, and Jimmy Thomas barely beat the throw to the plate. Shortstop Eddle Dursd then scored on the play when the ball got by Pettinger...
...three runs in the first inning. Rich Coggins walked and Paul Blair promptly doubled off the wall in deep left center to chase him home. After Bobby Grich lofted a sacrifice fly to rightfielder Dwight Evans to send Blair to third, Powell delivered his first hit, a broken-bat blooper to center, to score Blair...