Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Torrez, the game fell rather heavily in his lap. The former Yankee, while making millions and winning but 16 in his first season with Boston, was out there attempting to justify his place in the free agent system, attempting to justify his ability to pitch well in the clutch, attempting to beat the best pitcher in baseball. Somehow, all that pressure seemed right...
Robert Mulligan (Summer of '42) can be a first-rate film maker, but his world here suffers from a bad miscalculations. Trying for what appears to be an expressionistic style, he has directed the movie at a screeching pitch. He matches the script's verbal and physical violence blow for blow with slam-bang editing and ; pounding musical score; he never give the audience a chance to catch its breath. What is intended to be operatic come out overblown and, at times, overacted Goldoni's Mom is so crazed she seems to have stepped out of Exorcist...
Most professors still confine themselves to traditional, innocuous strategies ?hosting early-fall beer parties, allowing students to shop around for courses before committing themselves. But many choose a more direct pitch. Taking a cue from TV executives, the University of Montana's history department made a three-credit hit out of "Roots: American Genealogy and Immigration"?a success story they hope to duplicate with another made-for-college spinoff: a three-credit course covering Nazi Germany. "We capitalized blatantly on Roots," confesses Montana History Chairman Dr. Harry Fritz. "Now we are trying to capitalize on the Holocaust...
After Bill Robinson and Willie Stargell were intentionally walked to load the bases, Brusstar came in to pitch. He balked before delivering his second pitch to Phil Garner and Parker trotted home with the winning run as the stunned Phillies walked toward the dugout...
...possibility of a Yankee defeat became more and more imminent, the spirits of the Sox and their fans were revived. And when Jim Rice knocked his first pitch of the game into left field for a base hit--becoming the American League's first slugger to reach 400 total bases since Joe DiMaggio in 1937--the hope was there...