Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today 12 more teams open their seasons. Tomorrow reality sets in. The pessimists take over. The dreaded "Wait 'Til Next Year" headlines hit the newsstands...
...Opening Day, the Boys of Summer can do no wrong. They catch every fly, stab every grounder and hit only line drives. They can end airline strikes, clean up oil spills and bring world peace...
...maintained its high level of play on Friday. Bucknell squeaked away with another one-run defensive thriller, 1-0, in the first game. The Crimson had chances to score--including a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the third inning--but was unable to come up with the timely hit. Bucknell scored on a bang-bang play at the plate...
...hunter goes after deer with an Uzi or an AK-47; those weapons are not made for picking off an animal in the woods but for blowing people to chopped meat at close-to-medium range, and anyone who needs a banana clip with 30 shells in it to hit a buck should not be hunting at all. These guns have only two uses: you can take them down to the local range and spend a lot of money blasting off 500 rounds an afternoon at silhouette targets of the Ayatullah, or you can use them to off your rivals...
...ordinarily bright spring-training atmosphere was further darkened by proliferating reports that Rose has blown his fortune on wagers. The Dayton Daily News stated that he recently sold the bat and ball from his record 4,192nd hit. Rose responded with a melancholy "No comment." None of his comments throughout the besieged week were more expansive than a flippant remark to S.I.: "I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball...