Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...build more bridges to Capitol Hill, Carter sent all Democratic Senators copies of his position papers and other statements on issues. He will make his pitch in person to Democratic House and Senate leaders in Washington this week. He also plans to court the leaders of the AFL-CIO. Its president, George Meany, would prefer Humphrey, but is described by associates as resigned to a Carter nomination. In contrast, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock endorsed Carter last week...
Paxton and freshman Gene Purdy fired workmanlike rounds of 79 and 80 respectively but had trouble negotiating Hanover's stubby, dried out and overall scabrous greens. The two fell prey to the general inability to get pitch shots up and down, as Purdy nailed 14 greens but 3-putted five...
...pulled out a three wood for his second shot but still didn't have enough stick to reach the uphill par four facing into the wind. The sixteenth also exacted a double bogey from Vik, who drove his tee shot into the woods. Vik came right back, flipping a pitch shot that slithered to within one foot of the pin. He flubbed the rushed putt and had to settle...
...pitch was by no means epochal, but like the approximately 505,400 other fastballs, curves, sliders, sinkers, spitters, straight changes, screwballs, blooper balls and knucklers that will be thrown this year in major-league games, it was an assertion of the baseball season's venerable rhythms, which have been springing up around April and falling off around October for more than a century. It was also a useful pitch, both functional and decisive. It takes something of an artist's bravery and knowledge to throw major-league pitches. A fan savors the lines they draw...
...their money they just ask for flavor. It won't be easy for the sport to reconcile its players' new clout with the need to keep ticket prices down to a daily digestible level, but then it isn't easy to throw or hit a nice pitch either. Showmen like Bill Veeck and operators like Ted Turner seem to be up to the new challenge, and baseball appears to have the momentum to keep rolling along. Asked what he likes most about the game's format, Tug McGraw ponders for a moment and replies, "The shape...