Word: ninth
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...first year [in organized softball], I played right field and batted ninth in the line-up," Hartl said. "I couldn't catch a ball to save my life, and couldn't throw much better than that...
...Mandel left us last week, listening to the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
Fairweather was born in Scotland in 1891. He was the unloved ninth child of a British army surgeon-general and a mother whom he learned to hate: when he was a baby they left him with foster parents, went to India and did not see him again until he was 10. By then, the form had set: he would grow up solitary, without close emotional connections to anyone, a natural exile. Tellingly, the most common recurrent image in his work until the end of the '50s was of the mother and child-the denied paradise of union with the breast...
...battled to 4-4 in the final set, before Tseng broke Reddy's serve in the ninth game. Tseng held serve to close out the win, 6-4, completing the Crimson's sweep of the singles matches...
...last week's Newsweek, there is one anecdote which defines Jordan's baseball misadventures. With his Birhimgham Barons playing the Memphis Chicks-Jordan came to the plate with two down in the ninth and the game on the line...