Word: centerfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Carolina refused to fold in the final rematch. When Lewis ended the Allen jinx by striking him out in the first, and when Mookie Wilson, winner of the CWS Micky Rivers look-alike contest, sprinted and crashed into the centerfield wall to rob another Sun Devil of extra bases in the second, it was clear that Omaha had itself a ball game. A pair of unlikely heroes eventually decided things...
...veritable iron man in the batter's box and in centerfield, where he played 1795 games for Washington, Buffalo, St. Louis, Louisville, Chicago and Cincinnati during the course of his career. He led the league in 1899 with 633 at bats and in walks with 1901 and 1891, when he had 119. Altogether he had 2044 hits, which gave him a lifetime batting average...
...addition, an outstanding centerfielder. In an interview he once said that the achievement of which he remained most proud was a fielding record he holds to this day. In the ninth inning of a game, from centerfield he threw out three runners trying to score from second...
...assured them. "It's because we've already put chemicals on the field, and nobody's allowed out there. If you spread the stuff around with your shoes, it could clump up and kill the grass where we don't want it to." The laborer looked up at the centerfield clock--which runs all winter--polished off his soft drink, and excused himself; his break was over...
Tuesday, however, it will be quite different. For one thing, Fred Stanley and Steve Dillard are not running for anything including the baseball which just skipped off their gloves into centerfield, and for another, even if they were, they'd probably lose...