Word: centerfielders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along time coming. Too long, by any reckoning, to wait for a new record by a man who has written some of the clearest, most enduring songs in all of rock. But Centerfield, John Fogerty's first album since 1975, sounds as if he has never been away: out of time but never out of touch. His music always seemed timeless anyhow, torn out of some imaginary territory in rock's persistent musical past, and it always seemed natural. It still does. Only it has all come very hard...
...high school she was a force, a varsity diver and gymnast who played recreation-league softball, ran track, waved pom-poms and wished she could do more. Carl attempted hail-fellow sports like baseball, but as a coach of that period remembers, "he was always picking daisies in centerfield." For Lewis, track became a comfort station, a self-sufficient arena where the contestants are allowed to be withdrawn. "I was never a fighter when I was young," he says. "I was shy, so I always found another way of getting around a tough situation. I stayed calm...
...moved his stuff from a coach's stall to the manager's office. They did. Kuenn has a wooden leg and a bad heart, and he squints a bit from the time he tried to catch a home run and his eye got hooked up on a centerfield fence. The fences never were able to contain his effort, or his team...
Harvard took the lead for good in the seventh, when Bruce Weller doubled and scored on Bauer's single, and Martell at second after a fielder's choice and a stolen base--walked home on Allard's two base hit into the gap in right centerfield. Harvard, 5-4 UConn ab r h bi Veneziano 30 3 1 0 0 Rossirt 4 2 1 0 Ethotc 4 1 1 0 Crowey oh 4 0 4 1 Tinkham 5 0 1 0 Granger cf 5 0 1 1 Nobless 4 0 1 0 Patenaude15 3 0 1 0 McMilltan...
...when catcher Vinnie Martelli's bid for a three-run homer fell into Howard's glove in deep centerfield. Barber had his second straight shutout over Harvard...