Word: inning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Ripken. Offensively speaking, Ripken may be right, although he has had two mvp, Gehrigian seasons (1983 and 1991). But defensively Ripken plays a much tougher position than Gehrig did, and he does a much better job of it at that. As durable as Lou was, he played every inning of every game for only one season; Ripken played every inning of 904 straight games from 1982 to '87-only his father, then the manager of the Orioles, could sit him down. While Gehrig occasionally resorted to artifice to extend his streak, Ripken has never done anything untoward to keep...
...that he gave the All-Stars a little pregame speech he calls, "Ask Not What Baseball Can Do for You, Ask What You Can Do for Baseball." Apparently, Frank Thomas of the White Sox wasn't listening. The slugging first baseman left the All-Star Game after the fourth inning to catch a plane back to Chicago for a game the next night. Granted, he hit a two-run homer in the fourth, but the AL could still have used his bat, and besides, many players who had games the next day stayed...
...think you will agree that much of what you have learned is the acquiredexperience of other people, I am confident thatyour success is just one inning away," he said...
...Penn and Columbia doubleheaders sandwiched around a pair of extra-inning wins were two close losses. Particularly painful was the setback to the Lions in which Harvard blew a 3-0 lead through a pair of the errors...
Providence came back to win both games the following day in the championship to claim the title, including a nine-inning 6-2 win in the finale. But the despite that disappointment, it certainly was a top-notch season...