Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devil's theory of park effects. The reason is that they find it hard to believe a bearded pseudo-academic, squirreled away with pad and pencil in Kansas, could possibly know more about the game than veteran beat writers, who & regularly trade locker-room gibes with Reggie and Pete and get to provide ringside coverage of Billy Martin's bouts with marshmallow salesmen...
...Pete Dexter...
...Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The fatal date was Aug. 2, 1876. Hickok did not have a chance to draw for either a full house or his life. The bullet went in the left side of his head and came out through his right cheek, leaving a crosslike exit mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall was hanged for the killing, but in the Dexter version, the jury takes one hour to acquit the assassin, "on account...
...this way, he is a subtler find than fellow Phenoms Jose Canseco of Oakland and Pete Incaviglia of Texas, whose muscles show. "I didn't expect to hit 15 the whole year," Joyner admits. "I never think about hitting a home run. Sometimes I sit down, and it doesn't feel like I've ever hit one. I'm in dreamland. Because I've been playing baseball for a year straight now, I'm hard-pressed to think where everything started and stopped. But I've kept a fairly even keel, I hope, thanks to my family...
This week the House Budget Committee will begin wrestling in earnest with its own resolution. After helping bang out a budget that reflected more common sense than political ideology, Pete Domenici proudly declared that the Senate plan "sends a signal to the House that something close to this is what we ought...