Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Craig Worthington drove in Mickey Tettleton from third base with a flared single to left for the winning run as the Sox dropped the season opener in front of President Bush, who threw out the opening pitch...
When Dayton Searles heard the pitch, he figured he couldn't lose. A telephone salesman representing a Las Vegas firm called Vita Life told Searles that he had won a valuable prize. The St. Paul retiree would receive a new car, a two-week vacation in Hawaii, an imported French fur coat, a combination television-VCR, or $3,000 in cash. To qualify, all he had to do was buy some vitamins. Without a moment's hesitation, Searles agreed to order an eight- month supply for $395. But when his prize of a fur coat arrived 3 1/2 months later...
...types of telemarketing cons are being hatched overnight, sometimes abetted by front-page news that provides a convincing sales pitch. After the 1987 stock-market crash shook investor confidence in securities, con artists began pushing such alternatives as rare coins, gold, oil and gas leases, and diamonds. One Tulsa-based telemarketing company cleaned up by selling shares in a "secret process" for converting volcanic sand on Costa Rican beaches into gold. A swindler who had been convicted of selling shares in a nonexistent gold mine continued to solicit new investors from a pay phone in his Wyoming prison...
Some scam artists pitch legitimate-sounding items over the phone at plausible prices, then send products that bear little resemblance to the descriptions. "Car phones," for example, turn out to be cheap telephones in the shape of a car. One "sewing machine" looks more like a stapler, and the "piano" fits in the palm of your hand. "Home stereo entertainment systems" turn out to be tiny radios, and "satellite dishes" look suspiciously like Chinese woks...
...Fireballer Nolan Ryan, who will pitch this year for the Texas Rangers, is the only hurler in baseball history to record five no-hitters. Ryan pitched his first two no-hitters in 1973 as a California Angel. He pitched his fifth for the Houston Astros in 1981, when he blanked the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-0. Can you name who Ryan was tied with for most no-hitters in a career before he set the record...