Word: overhand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bench did come out of the playoffs with a bang, hammering the ball out of Riverfront Stadium in the last of the ninth in the final game. Defensively, Bench has it all over Munson. Long ago, Bench learned that to throw someone out at second, you should throw overhand...
...said: He'd left Hong Kong when he was only four and by now--be was 26--the rest of his family had moved on to America. He lived not far away, alone, and wouldn't I like to see his flat sometime? The first player made an overhand serve. Alan was learning the guitar, teaching himself because be couldn't afford lessons, and be already played the piano. He didn't have his own piano, but the Camden complex had one that he could use after work. Someone on the tennis court missed his step reaching for a ball...
...loose, flowing grace that allows him to snap off a high, hard one with seemingly effortless ease. After dipping into a deep windup, he cocks his right knee to his shoulder, rears back until the ball is almost touching the ground behind him and then, in a whipping overhand motion, smokes it across the plate. "Vida has three things going for him," says Oakland Catcher Dave Duncan. "First, he's overpowering. Second, his ball moves. Third, he's sneaky. He has that nice, easy motion, so you think you can hit him. But you can't pick up the ball...
...late innings of games he wasn't pitching, and sometimes he even threw on the sidelines while his team was at bat in games he was pitching. Collins had relied on his sidearm delivery to surprise batters the year before, but he worked this season on his overhand delivery so that the sidearm became a more versatile weapon...