Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there was that muggy Sunday afternoon in late July when Giamatti and other dignitaries sat on folding chairs on the infield grass at Shea Stadium. The occasion was a love fest, the official retiring of the number (41) of the Mets' former pitcher Tom Seaver, a.k.a. Tom Terrific. In the packed stands, goodwill and nostalgia outweighed even the humidity -- until the public- address announcer, introducing the honored guests, reached Giamatti. "Boo!" the crowd responded. "Booooooooooo...
Later, an inning short of the official seal, poetry struck a final time, along with lightning. Funnels of dust that some took to be divine displeasure rose up and blew across the infield, and two hours of rain flooded the tarpaulin and washed out the game. The sellout crowd of 39,008 drew back under cover and took the time to really look at the old place in the new light. The outfield wall, with its singular vines and morning glories and spider webs, was humanely spared any hardware. The stanchions peek fairly unobtrusively over the shoulders of the stadium...
...erudition behind a blunt style that shook comfortable perceptions with irony and contradictions. When Fussell goes to the races at the Indianapolis Speedway, for example, he begins with the standard derisive sociology about the "middles" in the reserved seats and the black-leather set that gathers in the muddy infield known as the Snake Pit. But by the time he leaves, Fussell is a fan of what he sees as a dangerous ritual that provides an outlet for an unruly national spirit...
Henderson's infield single after a balk by Boyd (5-5) capped a four-run second inning...
...Carlton Fisk, Terry Kennedy, and Ted Simmons, on how they go about their job. You find out how catchers call a game, settle down high-strung pitchers, seize up-and-in, rising 95-m.p.h. fastballs so as to turn the umpire's call to their advantage, and align the infield against great hitters, like George Brett or Wade Boggs, who can hit all types of pitches to all fields...