Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Intercourse. The Scoreboard made victory sounds. Veeck beamed and thanked everybody. Then he spent two hours going over the game, pitch by pitch, with Bob Lemon, his manager, and two coaches. Ralph Garr was still swinging at the first pitch too often. He had to be reminded to wait for a strike every time he came...
Stewart made his high fastball look a little too good and Backus took him deep for the only extra-base hit of the day. "Ron made two bad pitches all day and that was one of them" Coach Loyal Park said after the game. Park said the other bad pitch had led to Wilhite's two-run single in the third...
...tough? On the field it's a war. My mother, I love her, but she don't pitch for me in the World Series...
...donned a special "fat suit." "I always admired Sophie's elegant arrogance," says Ball, who carefully practiced Tucker's mannerisms and purposeful strut across the stage. But Lucy could not master Sophie's sweeping bow. "When you take a fast bow in a fat suit, you pitch forward," she explains. "That bow almost landed me in the orchestra...
Restless, Chiang Ch'ing arose, beckoned me to follow, and motioned her bodyguard to lead the way through the tall doors that opened in to the pitch-black night. Obviously perplexed, [the aide] reached for his flashlight and plunged ahead into the humid night air and faint moonlight. She followed him and I her. Chiang Ch'ing had deliberately led us out of reach of the indoor microphones [two had been placed before each of them to record the interviews...