Word: fungoes
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...stop complaining or God might not grant my wish to get the fungo bat surgically removed from Mickey Rivers's behind...
...ball in the last two and a half months, anything that the team did was pure gravy. They won the pennant despite all the verbal rattail-flicking that went on off the field, despite injuries to their pitching staff that clogged them throughout, despite having a $100,000 fungo hitter in Ken Holtzman, despite Bucky Dent's mediocrity, despite George Steinbrenner's obtrusive presence...
...World Series history. After erupting for three quick runs in the first inning, the Orioles seemed afflicted by some sort of night blindness when the Pirates brought in Relief Pitcher Bruce Kison, 21, a sidearming rookie brought up from the minors in July. Lean and whippy as a fungo bat, the 6-ft. 4-in. Kison allowed only one hit and shut out the Oriole musclemen for the next six innings. The Pirates, led by Stargell, Centerfielder Al Oliver and the irrepressible Clemente, pushed across two runs of their own in the first inning and another in the third...
...spring training, while other baseball announcers were playing the usual guessing game about the outcome of the season, Broun was ruminating about one of the finer points of the game. "Legend placed the fountain of youth in Florida," he reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint...
...club that lost four straight games to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1963 World Series. But Yogi was taking no chances. "We had too many pulled muscles last year," he said, ordering ten minutes of rugged calisthenics every day. At practice sessions he was everywhere-gesturing with a fungo bat, exhorting his players ("C'mon now, c'mon . . . let's hustle . . . attaboy . . . here we go . . . let's move"), scribbling furiously in a bulging notebook...