Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will tirelessly go to practices and games and cheer away. I will take part in pitching, batting, jump shots and lay-ups. The next time you see zealous, overheated parents, remember that at least they have taken the time to participate in their child's life. Not every parent is looking for a multimillion-dollar contract. What's being sculpted here is not a pro athlete but a secure, stable, responsible adult. This weekend's baseball game is where we will continue teaching the lessons of life...one pitch at a time. SHARON HAIGNEY Fort Worth, Texas...
...Street, of course, is never content to buy just Cisco. Too boring, and it doesn't generate enough excitement, let alone commission. These days brokers pitch us the next Cisco nearly every session. The IPO market, as hot as I have ever seen it, is pumped full of next Ciscos, as company after company goes public with a Cisco flavor. Some of these new issues seem to jump solely because they list Cisco as a competitor in the prospectus! Brocade, which makes fiber-channel switches--something that has the look and feel of Cisco--jumped from...
...retrospect, I overreacted. When the Cedar Rapids Kernels offered to let me throw out a first pitch, I shouldn't have run by the editors' offices yelling "I bet your precious Calvin Trillin has never thrown out a first pitch!" I called my new favorite minor-league team immediately and accepted, drunk on my own power and assuming Cedar Rapids wasn't really far away. It is. From anywhere...
...wasn't until I got on the plane to Iowa that I panicked about the pitch. In a stroke of dumb luck, I found myself seated next to Matt Goeke, an 11-year-old Little League player who agreed to serve, in a limited, seated capacity, as my pitching coach. He gave me a piece of Bubble Yum, the official gum of Major League Baseball, to chew on the mound. He also drew some diagrams, mostly of a baseball and where the stitches are. "Don't try to be somebody else. Don't try to gun it. Get your...
...pitch did not go well. Frazzled by my introduction, I bounced it in front of home plate and then, forgetting Goeke's advice to look happy if I messed up, made a facial expression that was far more Woody Allen than Kevin Costner. As local sports columnist Mike Hlas commented, "That was one bad throw. I know it's not as easy as it looks, but man." Even worse, Veronica Portillo, a girlfriend of one of the players, said, "You looked a little old for the first pitch. They're usually little kids." But her friend Shannon Kroll said, "Your...