Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers, with Milt Wilcox and Willie Hernandez teaming for a three-hitter, completed a three-game sweep of the Kansas City Royals last night...
MONTREAL--Rookie left-hander Joe Hesketh pitched a four-hitter and Dan Driessen drove in three runs with a homer and a single to lead the Montreal Expos to a 7-0 shutout of the New York Mets last night...
Indeed, it is hard to reconcile this lean heavy hitter with memories of the chubby adolescent who came out of Eastern Europe more than a decade ago with an unreliable backhand, a gentle disposition that led her to give away games, and a sweet tooth for capitalism's material delights. Hard to reconcile this figure too with the bewildered defector of 1975, or the girl who cried in 1981 over her inability to win the U.S. Open. With astonishing grit she has overcome all that, while retaining, with people she trusts, the rather innocent and witty honesty that...
...belongs to former Pittsburgh Pirates Star Willie Stargell, 43, and his family. When Stargell heard that a dog-food company was running a "Search for the Great American Dog," he figured that had to be Nemo, his 2½ year-old part German shepherd. The celebrated base hitter even submitted an essay of the required 50 words or less on why Nemo should be named Most Valuable Pooch. Wrote Stargell, obviously from the heart: "He's one in a million." The winner gets $25,000. Will it be Nemo, prompting all the noncelebrity contestants to cry foul? Finalists will...
...best leadoff hitter I've ever coached," says Crimson mentor Alex Nahigian, who has spent the past quarter century coaching college baseball...