Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both teams were good field, no hit; both had made a specialty of winning one-run games with deeds of derring-do (the White Sox 35 out of 50; the Dodgers 33 out of 55). The "Dodgers were counting on the strong right arm of Catcher John Roseboro to check Chicago's famed speed on the base paths, and man for man the Dodgers were actually faster than the go-go Sox. One apparent Chicago asset: their pitching staff was well rested, while the Dodgers' was still giddy-eyed and weary-armed after the frantic, final dash...
...locker room that the pains in his stomach meant an ulcer. In the first inning Neal gave his stomach cause for more pain by botching a double-play ball, opened the way for two quick Sox runs. But in the fifth, Neal grimly homered into the lower left-field stands for a run-the first time the Dodgers had scored in 14 innings. Suddenly, all seemed right with the Dodgers. An unknown outfielder named Chuck Essegian rose from the bench in the seventh to pinch-hit, swatted another homer. Two batters later, Neal came back...
...horse sense made him a number of friends, but never found him a wife. When needled about his bachelorhood, Richardson explained his private theory about life: "Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman. They're all wantin' a landin' field, but mine's fogged...
Credit on the Barrel. Wangling money, equipment and labor on credit, Richardson began wildcatting, brought in West Texas' famed Keystone field. "It was luck," he recalled, surveying his pyramiding debts, which chased right after his skyrocketing wealth. "I did it by jumping up in the air six feet and holding myself up by my own bootstraps...
...predator of Wall Street is neither bull nor bear, but the peregrine falcon; the swift diving bird of medieval romance roosts in the towers of office buildings and, with pigeons as prey, makes many a killing in the street. Once, covering a football game at Columbia's Baker Field, Kieran spotted hawks high in the sky; keeping his glasses alternately on the sky and on the field, he got both the story of the game and the score in the sky: 88 hawks, all redtails or redshoulders...