Word: pitcher
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...Street, hidden in a sea of pinstriped suits at cocktail hour. Significantly, Powers was not alone. He was huddling with others who shared his misery and his sense of mission. The names they whispered were foreign to midtown Manhattan. Not Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, and Joe but Ruth (as a pitcher), Foxx, Williams, and Dom. The group recounted bygone Boston glories and dared to predict future victories. From such hushed intercourse, movements are born. These renegades with their neckties, bow ties, wingtips, and dedication to the Sox weren?t unlike Hancock, Revere, and the gang, huddling in that tavern in Lexington...
...addition to Augustus, Corriero is competing against UCLA gymnast Kristen Maloney, Texas softball pitcher Cat Osterman, and Notre Dame soccer forward Katie Thorlakson...
...addition to Augustus, Corriero is competing against UCLA gymnast Kristen Maloney, Texas softball pitcher Cat Osterman, and Notre Dame soccer forward Katie Thorlakson...
When Leonard looked around, he should not have been so astonished to see that all the Paul Splittorffs and Larry Guras had given way to Bret Saberhagens, that Leonard's entire class had graduated. "It doesn't seem that long ago," he thought, "when I was the young pitcher." Without any quarter, he made the team, but Danny Jackson had to sprain an ankle to secure him a start. On April 12 the Royals played the Toronto Blue Jays a game that for melodrama eclipsed all their October playoffs...
...victory that ended on a strikeout. "When I struck Rance Mulliniks out," Leonard says, "it was like I finally was home. Everyone ran out on the field except Mick, and he was the one I was waiting for." In the dugout, the pitcher pressed the ball into his trainer's hand...