Word: bunte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...religion. "Baseball is a beautiful thing," says sportscaster Bob Costas. "The way the field fans out. The choreography of the sport. The pace and rhythm of it." Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York and a ^ former minor leaguer, praises baseball's celebration of community, symbolized by the sacrifice bunt: "Giving yourself up for the good of the whole -- that's Jeremiah, that's thousands of years of wisdom." Political commentator George Will sees the sport as ideally suited to our democratic nation: "Democracy is government by persuasion. That means it requires patience ... Baseball is the game of the long season...
...James calls "a Rizzuto Exaltathon." By now the "Holy Cow!" boy is better known for the sprung poetry of his patter on Yankees TV broadcasts -- and for his call of "backseat petting" on Meat Loaf's hit song Paradise by the Dashboard Light -- than for his great-field, great-bunt playing days. But even then, James persuasively argues, he didn't have the numbers or the earned renown of Pee Wee Reese, a Hall of Famer, or of George Davis and Vern Stephens, who are faint memories...
Meanwhile, the Huskies backed their pitcher up with a pair of runs in the first inning. Outfielder Ed Carnes, the first inning. Outfielder Ed Carnes, the team's second batter of the game, laid down a perfect bunt down the third-base line for a single, promptly stole second and then was driven in by a Derek Gauthier shot off the Green Monster in left. Gauthier, after stealing third, was then driven in on a Mike Glavine groundout, making the score...
Later in the inning sophomore Amy Reinhard got on second base and was able to score on a Vermont error off a bunt...
...Beach Boys were nearly undone by Smile and by the eventual release of Smiley Smile, a much simplified version of the original that Brian's lead- guitarist brother Carl Wilson referred to as "a bunt instead of a grand slam." The seven albums that the Beach Boys went on to release between 1967 and 1972 sold something like a million copies, total. Wilson retreated, becoming rock's foremost eccentric, a kind of beach-bound Sasquatch; the band struggled on, often without his participation, becoming largely a nostalgia act, a confection for sentimentalists and California dreamers...