Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coming to bat for Los Angeles is Catcher Mike Scioscia, a contact hitter. "The bases are still drunk," Catcher Gary Carter calls out a reminder. "Let's get the double play," barks Third Baseman Ray Knight. Joey Amalfitano, the Dodger coach at third base, wigwags some semaphore to Scioscia, who flicks his helmet to signal message received. Gooden looks at Knight and mouths, "Squeeze bunt?" Knight looks at Amalfitano and says, "Too obvious." At first base, Keith Hernandez gives thought to visiting Gooden, but reconsiders. "What am I going to tell him? Bear down?" Bearing down, Gooden makes Scioscia foul...
...hitting theories are serenely uncomplicated. "A lot of players think at the plate," he says. "I just hack. I go up there, I see the ball, I hit it." What he will see from Gooden, if he can see them, are all fast balls, and all strikes. Catcher Carter stopped proposing anything else after Gooden shook off two curves. "If he wants to throw something you don't want him to throw," Manager Johnson has advised Carter, "try it his way for a while. He has a propensity for making the wrong pitch the right pitch." Carter is a catcher...
FOOTNOTE: *Presidential martini rhetoric has inflated at a pace roughly equal to that of the economy. According to former Senator Eugene McCarthy, John F. Kennedy spoke disparagingly of the "martini lunch" and 1972 Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern inveighed against the "two-martini lunch." Jimmy Carter, a no-martini Baptist, raised the critical count to three...
Apparently convinced that the cure was more painful than the original ailment, Carter "pulled the rug out from under" his appointed inflation-buster, Feldstein says...
Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and named to a second four-year term by President Reagan in 1983, the 6-ft., 8-in. financier holds the purse strings to America's money supply...