Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pakalnis blasted his second homer of the season in the sixth inning, driving a pitch from Princeton loser Steve Holland (4-4) 400 feet over the left-centerfield wall...
...NOTEBOOK: Cornell drops to 4-10 inleague action, and Princeton, after falling toboth Harvard and Dartmouth, finishes the season at6-11-1 in the EIBL.KEVIN CURTIN (seen here in earlier action)fires a pitch towards the plate. Curtin upped hisrecord to 3-0 yesterday with an 11-0 victory overCornell...
Batter up! It's time for the season's first pitch to Rotisserie League Baseball, which in just seven years has grown from a rookie gleaming with promise into a full-blown phenom with all the tools. No one knows exactly how many fantasy leagues have sprung up across the country since Journalists Dan Okrent and Glen Waggoner invented the game at the now defunct La Rotisserie restaurant in Manhattan, but guesses run to more than 5,000. Statistical services catering to the voracious needs of Rotisserians, for whom the stats are the life, have flourished. There are even books...
...open forums, students could hear representatives of the CIA and other firms make a pitch for the employment opportunities their companies offered. If they wanted, the students could also confront the representatives with grievances and try to convince them to change the companies' policies...
...polyester revolution" reached a fever pitch in 1979 when baseball fans were exposed to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Depending on the directives of management, the Pirates would wear black, white or gold pants or jerseys, either with or without pinstripes. The result was a wide variety of looks that may or may not have confused the Baltimore Orioles into losing the 1979 World Series...