Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffering fan, a hearty, hatchet-faced former tire dealer named Harry Grossman, 91, pushed the electric button. "Let there be light," he proclaimed in a biblical voice. The Cubs' holiest relics, Ernie Banks and Billy Williams, threw out first balls. Chicago's most sentimental pitcher, Rick Sutcliffe, took the mound. "It's like sunshine and Wrigley are saying goodbye to each other," he thought, though only eight night games are scheduled this season and just 18 a year for the calculable future. Looking hard at the Phillies' leadoff man, Phil Bradley, and straight into a light show of Instamatic flashes...
...Last week Reagan played politics in dealing with both the defense budget and the plant-closings bill. With Bush trailing by as much as 18 points in the polls, the campaign has plainly turned into a game of hardball, and the G.O.P.'s most seasoned hurler has taken the mound. "Suddenly," said a Dukakis aide, "Reagan has been much more forcefully deployed...
...hard it must be to surrender, to never again put on spikes and smell the new-mown grass of an empty stadium. But how much harder it must be to walk out to the pitching mound or step into the batter's box knowing that you are expected to compete against striplings half your age. That is the bravery of Ryan, John, Sutton and Nettles as each game they pray that the mind can still command the muscles, that cunning can compensate for crumbling coordination. Men in their 40s are not meant to be gladiators; they are designed...
...beyond mortal dimension. Who in his or her daily existence has an experience to equal the champagne-drenched euphoria of a championship team? How can the workaday world match that moment when the last out is recorded and the players embrace in bacchanalian frenzy out near the pitcher's mound, pummeling and tumbling, shouting and shrieking, reveling in the totality of triumph...
...took Martin just two batters to leave the dugout. He went to the mound to counsel pitcher Charles Hudson in the top of the first inning. In the bottom of the first. Martin politely asked home plate umpire Mark Johnson to check a gold chain worn by Boston pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd...