Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learned is the mind controls everything," he says. "Your mind can throw the attention off to the side." Tony LaRussa, his manager at both the A's and the Cardinals, says McGwire has a unique ability to "control his emotions, to stifle them." His best friend on the team, catcher Tom Lampkin, says McGwire "has such control on the mental side. He doesn't let things stew inside him. He puts a cap on it." So as McGwire shattered the most famous record in sports with 70 homers in a season, he didn't embrace the conflict; he transcended...
...controversy all help push teachers toward outdated or bland book choices. Those who fight back with verve risk being drummed out of a job or even chased into court. And the old reliable volumes aren't necessarily a refuge either. Such classics as The Grapes of Wrath and Catcher in the Rye are still frequently the object of parental protests...
Monday, Jan. 26 From Meg To: Tom hello, hello, hello??!!!!! This is my first pitch out there into the void. Are you there? Will you catch it? Will you be the catcher in the void? clackety, clack, blah, blah, blah...hello...
...magic of the '27 season derived in large part from uncanny luck: the team was so free of injury that six of its eight position players enjoyed more than 500 at bats. A good thing this was, for Murderers' Row obscured a hollow bench whose most productive resident, catcher Johnny Grabowski, contributed exactly one home run and 25 runs batted...
...PHILADELPHIA A'S: Connie Mack's finest team won 107 games behind the well-muscled Jimmie Foxx and Al Simmons, with an assist from catcher Mickey Cochrane. The rest of the offense was a collection of relative mediocrities, and beyond the great Lefty Grove (31-4), the pitching staff was just better than average...