Word: inning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he trotted out to right field at the top of the opening inning last Monday, talented but contentious Jose Canseco was playing for baseball's Oakland Athletics. But by the bottom of the first, the A's had traded the stunned slugger to the Texas Rangers for three players and a wad of cash. Said he: "I said to myself, 'This isn't April Fool's Day.' " It wasn...
Iranians traded pins with Iraqis in the Games, and in the final inning of the semifinal game between baseball's archrivals, Cuban first baseman Lourdes Gourriel -- on his way back to a bankrupt island -- wished American Phil Nevin every success in the major leagues. By week's end, all those who came were leaving with some such memento: with a large round weight around their necks, or a picture of themselves with Magic Johnson; with shaved heads or ruptured tendons. Barcelona has long been famous as a city of artists and laborers, a "city of marvels" where discipline and flight...
...expectation. In their second game, they dispensed with Italy 18-1 and were probably distraught about giving up a run. Then they trounced Japan 8-2. One day later, to vary things a little, against an uncommonly strong U.S. team, they spotted the Americans five runs in the first inning and calmly breezed past, 9-6. Yet as they continued their imperturbable strut toward the first Olympic gold medal in the all-American pastime, the Cubans were carrying on their shoulders all the ambiguities of the Games. Were they an ideal embodiment of the Olympic spirit -- spurning cash to play...
...last inning of the first game of a doubleheader against Boston College, Johnston was called upon to work the Crimson out of a bases loaded...
...that spring's most spirited contests was a 14-inning baseball victory over Yale, with Mort Walstein and Warren Berg pitching the Crimson to a 5-3 victory...