Word: centerfielders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Detroit did get the hit, and Fenway sagged as the ball rolled slowly out to centerfield. The centerfielder charged the ball, put down his right hand, scooped up the ball, rocked it back into his left hand and threw, all without breaking stride...
...belonged in Fenway's centerfield. Those of us who grew up outside commuting distance from Boston, didn't hear much about centerfield in that ballpark. Leftfield, with its little wall, gets all the press. It's called the "Green Monster," which is a terrible misnomer; every batter who has looked north from home plate at Fenways views the "Monster" as the best friend he could ever have, a good buddy who turns pop ups into runs batted in. The Green Monster is a tourist trap...
...death of a President. It had been caused by Joseph E. Granville, 57, a self-promoting market theorist who lives in a suburb of Daytona Beach. Last Tuesday night Granville sent messages to some 3,000 clients urging them to sell their stocks. Like Babe Ruth pointing to the centerfield bleachers in the 1932 World Series and then slamming a home run to that precise spot, Granville predicted a big stock market tumble last week and then sat back and watched it happen...
...fuss, national politics-these things obsessed Americans all year, but not to the exclusion of all else. In Dixon, Davenport and all over, people avidly followed sports. Baseball was the game, Babe Ruth the hero-and one who alone would have made the year memorable: flamboyantly gesturing toward the centerfield bleachers where he intended to hit the home run that would, and did, help the Yankees sweep the Cubs in the World Series...
...Yankees bounced back in the fifth on a leadoff inside-the-park home run by Graig Nettles. The shot bounced off the glove of rightfielder John Wathan's glove and careened toward the centerfield, allowing Nettles to score. Moments later, Wathan misjudged a Willie Randolph line drive which dropped in for a double and drove Brown home from first...