Word: mitt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want the Dodgers in New York." He turned menacing then. "That's where I want them." Even before the teams went back to the feared Bronx, where bottles sometimes outfly Frisbees, Steinbrenner struck. He came home with a cast on one mitt and a story of two New York-hating brigands in an elevator. George swore both fell to his flashing fists...
...annual reunion of the Negro Leagues. It was the first time that some of them had seen one another since the old days, and they had a lot of catching up to do. The splendid second baseman Piper Davis fired a ball across the lot, popping it in a mitt loud enough to wake the entire motel. Davis, who managed Willie Mays when he played for the Birmingham Black Barons, had turned 64 this year and was obviously pleased with himself. "Boy, I still got it," he said with a grin. Across the way a gnarled old man with...
With Chuck Marshall gone for the afternoon on personal business. Martelli picked up the first baseman's mitt for the "third and fourth times in my life" and died a fine job. Paul Scheper, in left field for the nightcap, ranged far into the pasture to corral a lead-off blast by Princeton's Bill Miller in the fourth, and freshman secondsacker Lyman had a near-perfect day, missing only a vaguely catchable ball that fell between him and center fielder Bruce Welfer for a harmless single...
...better not overwork his reindeer or he may end up financing some fancy surgery for them. According to Dr. Claes Rehbinder of the Swedish Veterinary College at Uppsala, reindeer suffer from stress and are prone to ulcers. Studying animals slaughtered during a roundup in the Lapp village of Mittådalen and elsewhere in northern Sweden, Rehbinder found that an astonishing four-fifths of them had ulcers...