Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brad Stinn. Of all people. That's what his teammates and coaches say. Hardest hitter on the team. Toughest competitor. Loves the game. Loves to win. Jim Callinan, the senior fullback who has played with Stinn through four years of college and four years at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, said, "The way Brad plays, you know it might have happened--he's all out, all the time...
...free-agent binge. Over four years, beginning in 1976, average player salaries rose from $52,300 to $143,756. Now even middling free agents command $300,000 a year. The owners' frenzied bidding hit a peak last year when the Yankees signed Dave Winfield, a .279 career hitter for the San Diego Padres, for a cool $23 million over ten years. The lords of baseball obviously needed something to protect them from themselves. They demanded that a team be able to protect just 15 to 18 of its players-little more than its starting line-up and pitching rotation...
...plays accumulated over the years, recombines them in purely speculative fantasy: "Ruth bats against Sandy Koufax or Sam McDowell ... Hubbell pitches to Ted Williams." Angell has written about one of the mysteries of baseball's attraction: "Its vividness, the absolutely distinct inner vision we have of that hitter, that eager base runner, of however long ago." No other sport, he remarks, "yields these permanent interior pictures, these ancient and precise excitements. Baseball is intensely remembered because it is so intensely watched...
...expectations. Most of the 1980 Eastern League championship squad had graduated, leaving a strong albeit young corps behind, and promising another EIBL title. But erratic pitching and overall inconsistency relegated the team to a fifth-place finish in the Eastern League. One highlight was junior Greg Brown's no-hitter against Penn. Yale's All-American moundsman Ronnie Darling also created a stir when he came to Cambridge, attracting nearly a dozen radar-gun-toting major league scouts and, of course, beating Harvard...
...Capitol in 1945. Though that plane got no kicks from champagne, this ship did. Nancy, a righty (natch), uncorked a swing with enough brut force to christen not only the Ticonderoga, but herself and a few onlookers. The scouting report on Mrs. Reagan: a good spray hitter...