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...course, not all AL pitchers have been poor hitters. Seventy years ago, a mound prospect named George Herman Ruth hit so well for the Red Sox and Yankees that he was moved to the outfield where he could play everyday. The "Babe" had the most famous nickname ever, but thousands of players have been saddled with less notable monickers. Two points for each of the following players' nicknames...
...exemptions did not mean that the vulnerable areas of domestic spending will actually have to be slashed by a devastating 25% next year and vulnerable defense outlays by perhaps 18%. "That's in the ball park," said Bowsher, thus conjuring up a ball park stripped of seats, gates and outfield fences...
Cunningham is fondly called "Joan of Arc" by her teammates, because of her habit of leading them in large arcs around the outfield when the squad runs between the foul lines to warm...
Mary MacKinnon, in left, was the outfield's defensive standout, sporting a strong and accurate arm. And Mary Paul demonstrated a Pete Rose-like ability to play a variety of positions--hustling...
...book also includes such poignant anecdotes as Carl Yastrzemski's refusal to admit he was going to retire because that meant giving in to pitchers; Fred Lynn's ten consecutive home runs in batting practice mechanically placed clockwise across the outfield; Jim Rice's exhaustion as hardworking schoolboy ballplayer who also held down a job; coach's yell of "no, no" as "go, go" and being thrown out at the plate to kill a World Series rally, Yet once again they seem better suited to a newspaper column than to a book of this length...