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Word: graig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bronx Bombers started banging away at Sox ace Bill Campbell with one out in the top of the eighth, though. Bang, Jackson slapped a rope up the middle for a single. Bang, Chris Chambliss sliced a double down the left-field line. Bang, Graig Nettles took first on an intentional walk. Enter Piniella, already the owner of two RBIs on the night, and bang--Campbell mowed both him and Willie Randolph down on a strikeout...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: A Fenway Thriller: Red Sox Zap the Yanks, 3-2 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Shlain's collection of anecdotes covers all the bases. It's just like that tomato sauce commercial: Stories about Charlie Finley's A's? It's in there. A funny Tommy Lasorda tale? It's in there. Goose Gossage's thoughts before getting Carl Yastrzemski to pop out to Graig Nettles, sealing the Red Sox's fate in 1978 (and thrilling this seven-year-old Yankee fan)? You guessed...

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: Spinning Webs of Baseball Strategy | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...Graig Nettles played third. He was a ballet dancer who somehow ended up performing his pas de deux on a baseball diamond. Nettles was the one I couldn't take my eyes...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: The Last of the Lot | 8/7/1990 | See Source »

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