Word: inning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is not one baseball fan who, as a young boy or girl, did not desperately want to play just one inning of one game in the major leagues...
Much like a one-hit wonder on the FM dial, we have glorified even the most obscure professional baseball players because they have lived the dream of actually being on the field, even if for only an at-bat or a half-inning in center field...
...movie "Field of Dreams," the character of Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham is shown as a tender-hearted old man who once played in one inning of a major-league game but never got to bat and never figured into a defensive play...
...making that noble flop and welcome him back to the baseball-weepie lode he mined in the sappy, canny Field of Dreams. (He even plays catch with his dead dad again.) Or perhaps, like this dogged Costner fan, you will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning...
...third inning, I'd made lots of friends. I did color in the radio booth with John Rodgers, who explained how Cedar Rapids was a city of five seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall and "time," which they always make sure to enjoy. I think of Cedar Rapids as the city with a poor grasp of the word season...