Word: outfielding
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...souls can smile, the soul of Jackie Robinson was smiling last week. Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners, a slim, swift outfielder out of Kasugai, Japan, was chosen Most Valuable Player in the American League by the Baseball Writers' Association of America?an overwhelmingly white, male group of U. S. journalists. During the 2001 season, Suzuki batted .350, garnered 242 hits, stole 56 bases and played a fine right field, showing about as good an outfield throwing arm as now exists. Newspaper accounts were busy with statistics and with reporting Suzuki's close run for the prize against Jason Giambi...
...Apparently, I am not a very good person. During my annual visit to San Francisco?s ballpark, I catcall the newly muscled Barry as he stands in the outfield. I holler at him, make loud choking noises, yell rhetorical questions: "Hey Barry, nice one! Why couldn?t you play like that in Pittsburgh?!" I pull my Pirates hat down low over my eyes and glower at the disgustingly cheerful Giants fans, who are all chatting away on their late-model Nokias and sipping celery sodas...
...then I saw something I?d never seen before: A smile play across the slugger?s face as he stood lost in the moment, watching the ball linger over the outfield lights. Something very small inside me loosened, unraveled, and I found myself smiling with him. It?s not love - but it may be acceptance. It?s awfully hard, after all, to fight someone who?s finally found peace...
...obvious. Recently, the Red Sox have been producing record attendance numbers despite having the highest ticket prices in baseball. In contrast, Olympic Stadium’s attendance is reaching record lows, and its V.I.P. seats behind home plate cost CAN$36, slightly cheaper than the US$25 obstructed-view outfield grandstand seats at Fenway Park. The favorable $1.50 Canadian-for-U.S. exchange rate enhances the visitors’ ability to acquire their respective hedonistic pleasures—families expose their children to French-Canadian tourism and culture, young couples wine and dine on the St. Lawrence waterfront and young...
...foul-mouthed and bitter man-there was one thing I wanted to be when I grew up: a baseball player. But by the time the wheat was beginning to separate from the Little League chaff, I was firmly established as chaff. I had trouble hitting to the outfield, and my fastball topped out in the low sixties with a penchant for hitting the backstop...