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...omitted one record that may be further out of reach than any other: consecutive no-hit games by a pitcher. The number of games is two, and it is held by Johnny Vandermeer of the Cincinnati Reds. He pitched his two historic games against the Boston Bees and Brooklyn Dodgers in 1938. Just imagine the media frenzy that would erupt if Roger Clemens or David Cone were to pitch two no-hitters in a row! KENNETH WIMMEL Bethesda...
...climactic scene is a game for the Frizzball Championship of the World--which is, by chance, what we called all our games. The batter resembles me. The pitch is a slice ball. I hit it to the second garbage can--a 7.3-run homer. The game is won. I glance up to see my wife in the stands (well, all right, the backyard). She has been caught up in the excitement of the game. She is cheering wildly...
...from deep inside the white-hot center of Week Two, Clinton was able to rise above the mess and outline a domestic agenda designed to help Americans navigate this time of good fortune, anxiety and change. The problem was that his spectacular performance, the wonderment of watching a master pitch his way out of a jam, obscured his message that the fruits of prosperity should be used to help those left behind. Among his proposals that night: a plan to let preretirement-age workers buy into the Medicare system, and another to dedicate $21 billion to help working families...
Three minimalist clowns expressing existential discomfort doesn't sound like a funny pitch. That's because it has the word clowns in it. But watching these three guys try to impress a casting director by head-butting a ham through a paper target, or a female audience member by singing, dancing and yelling "Look at me!" is the brainiest physical comedy in a long time. Their performance skills are Cirque du Soleil quality (one of them, Michael Dahlen, is a member of the surreal mime troupe the Blue Man Group), and even they hope to bring their slacker vaudeville...
...afford not to invest in the powerful trend toward people's shopping, at incredibly low prices, from the convenience of their homes? That was the pitch I used back when I was a broker at Goldman Sachs, and since that was in 1986-87, I wasn't hawking the Internet but rather an outfit called Home Shopping Network, which peddled stuff on TV and took orders by phone. Its stock had gone from 18 to 133 in the time it takes to say "cubic zirconium," and I thought it could only go higher. Instead, it suffered the most brutal, protracted...