Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring of '57, Haster and "Babe" Simourian and the other guys on the baseball team took a seven-hour ride to Princeton's Bedford Field. The Tigers had a good squad, and this day they had their pitching ace, John Finnegan, on the mound...
There was ABC's young Ted Koppel, looking puzzled under his mound of neatly mowed hair, trying to get his correspondents to explain how come certain defeat had been snatched from the jaws of certain victory, without proper notification to the networks...
...superior (a foreigner at that!). Then he stymbles onto the great man,s weakness: a touchingly intense faith in his new bride's innocence and honesty. The officer's lust for revenge consumes him, and he spends the later half of the play ebuliently chiselling on this great, remote mound called the Moor, eventually compelled to lie and kill to keep the plot in motion. When the poor Moor finally snuffs his sweet wife, and, the officer realizes--too late!--the error of his ways and feverishly repents as the curtain descends...
...other pro sports action, rain in Montreal postponed the fifth and deciding game of the National League playoffs. The Dogers send ace rookie Fernando Valenzuela to the mound to face the Expos' Ray Burris today. The rainout faces today's winner to travel to New York to face the Yankees tomorrow night without the benefit of a previously scheduled travel date...
Ryan ended the Dodger sixth when he tallied his fifth strikeout of the game to dismiss Valenzuela and run his string to fourteen straight outs. Valenzuela took the mound and retired the first two Astros...