Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess the Dodgers had seven or eight abusive drinkers, including me. In society, we don't take alcohol too seriously. In sports, we laugh at it. It's all one big Lite-beer commercial." He's an alcohol counselor now, and the counselors have a pretty good pitching rotation. "I never really knew what it was like to pitch a sober inning," says Ryne Duren, the Yankee reliever of the early '60s. "When I was with the Yankees in the mid-'70s," says Sudden Sam McDowell, "they hired a baby-sitter to stop me from drinking. All that...
...Democratic party is known for its ability to pull together diverse groups. Jesse Jackson's success is proof that party can garner much support from a populist platform and a charismatic pitch to the disenfranchised. The Democrats should find this method to be equally effective in attracting evangelicals...
Providence came back with two runs on four straight singles in the bottom of the inning, but Harvard tied the game in the top of the fourth. Allen singled, moved to third on a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly and scored on a sacrifice fly by O'Connell...
University of Rhode Island pitcher Steve Murphy added a slider to his pitching menu only three weeks ago. But yesterday, Murphy's new-found pitch helped cook the Crimson...
College administrators are not entirely sure that all the courting and hustle are worth the considerable time and expense (Bowdoin's weekend wooing of 34 minority students cost $19,800). Still, none are willing to cut back unless their competitors do. And even when the sales pitch is persuasive, educators wonder if the customer has been well served. "I get concerned that all the marketing is taking the place of good counseling and exploiting people who haven't reached a real maturity level," says Frank Burtnett, executive director of the National Association of College Admission Counselors in Alexandria...