Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When, in a much less dramatic moment on opening day of the 1986 season, a "Fenway Bleacher Beachball" came floating into the bullpen, Bob Stanley promptly raked the soul out of the ball and got rocked when he came in to pitch the next inning...
...heart stops as Ralph Terry (having thrown that pitch to Mazeroski just two years earlier) almost loses another Series in the 7th game, but Bobby Richardson stabs McCovey's screamer. Hey, Roger Craig even pitched for the Bums of Brooklyn, so I can go for San Francisco from both sides of New York's National League past...
...want you to be somebody, and you can if you try . . . Pick up that phone and call now!" So exhorted the smiling face in the newspaper ad for a nationwide chain of vocational schools. Rarely has such an ordinary pitch received so much attention, but then this was no ordinary pitchman: it was Presidential Hopeful Jesse Jackson. The message, self-improvement through education, was vintage Jackson. The medium was a blitz of commercial advertisements for which Jackson was to receive an undisclosed payment...
...National Pork Producers Council is trying to boost consumer interest with former Olympic Figure Skating Champ Peggy Fleming and a $7 million pitch presenting pork as the "other white meat," comparing it favorably with poultry. The National Dairy Board meanwhile is plugging milk, yogurt and cheese for their high content of a vaunted mineral. "Calcium the way nature intended," blare the ads. All-dairy products get to sport a red REAL seal...
Craig, 57, has had a lively life in baseball since leaving a North Carolina farm for Brooklyn in 1955 to pitch in the first big league game he ever saw. He was a 20-game loser (twice) for Casey Stengel's fledgling Mets. Recently he coached Sparky Anderson's pitchers to a World Series championship in Detroit and revolutionized that staff and others with his proliferating invention, the split-finger fastball. Late in a summer of 100 losses, the Giants summoned Craig from retirement in 1985. "I've known many kinds of fun," he remembered last week, "but nothing like...