Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wrench. "The world is beautiful because it's all different," says ! Faussone, an itinerant rigger who has worked on construction jobs all over the world. He is a fiction, says Levi, but authentic, a composite of workmen the author has known. The rigger's tales too have the pitch of stretched truths. On an eight-story tower, a mystery man collects dust that he claims comes from the stars. Faussone tells of a job in the tropics where one of his helpers was an ape: "He wanted to play, but he didn't want to strain himself. But I tell...
...senses, a bourgeois Eden whose roots wound back through a coastal peasant culture (still unhurt by tourism in the 1920s) to the Greco-Roman past. Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes on the table, bringing their sensuous embodiment to an extraordinary pitch of imaginative precision in which mere fantasy had no role...
...first down, UMass QB Tim Bryant fumbled the snap and was forced to fall on the ball for a loss. On the next play, Bryant tried to pitch to tailback Kevin Smellie but was hit and tossed wildly. The ball bounced right to the running back, who picked it up and promptly fumbled again. The Crimson again recovered...
...guys we love and admire--by Schiraldi who got us there, Gedman who performed with such quiet efficiency, Buckner who, though hobbled, had fielded flawlessly. I even grieved for Bob Stanley (nine times out of 10, Gedman stops that ball, even though it must technically be ruled a wild pitch; and Stanley did what he was brought in to do--he got Wilson to hit an easily playable ground ball). Yes, this was much worse--worse than selling that great lefty pitcher named Ruth, worse than Pesky holding the ball in 1946, worse than facing the Gibson machine...
...Roger Angell the greatest one-liner in the history of American sports literature. Responding to Vermeule's allegation, he offered another interpretation. He opined that God could just as easily have permitted Yaz to double off the "Green Monster" but that, at the crucial moment of Gossage's last pitch, God must have looked away momentarily and bent down to shell a peanut...