Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then it was top seed Maine, the host of the regional and three-time defending champions. Then it was All-American Billy Swifton the mound, who entered the game with a 0.52 ERA and had struck out 16 in his last appearance. And it looked like the Crimson had done it again...
Everybody was trying to figure out what to make of the roughly 1.5 million Americans who poured into England between July 1943 and Dday, introducing many Britons to such exotica as jitterbugging, Jeeps and even pitchers' mounds. When a mound was installed in Wembley Stadium for a baseball game between two U.S. service teams in early June 1944, the London Times informed puzzled readers that "its use adds to the speed of throw." Despite their far-reaching empire, many Britons, particularly in the smaller towns, had never seen a black man until the G.I.s arrived...
...small metal hook which, when pointed towards the mound and rotated to science fiction sounds out of "Lost in Space," was supposed to unnerve the visiting pitcher. Explained one bench-warming Engineer. "It makes him think he's gonns get the hook...
...hook didn't seem to bother either Crimson starter Paul Vallone or relief ace Chris Schindler, who were too busy getting used to standing on a pitcher's mound to pay attention to Beaver hijinks. Vallone, a night fielder, and Schindler, a first baseman, aren't exactly the team's most experienced hurlers...
...color has a resonant, hallucinated distinctness that brings early Mird to mind. Balthus would eventually paint some of the best landscapes of his time. The pick of them, perhaps, is Larchant, 1939, with its luminous sheet of sky and its mellow, precise inter-lockings of building, field and mound...