Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty years ago, the players didn't grab their crotches on national television to show up their opponents (i.e., Ken Griffey, Jr.) or charge the mound every time a pitch came near them...
Marquis Grissom led the game off at 4:04 p.m., lining Kent Mercker's first pitch into the right-centerfield alley for a double. The Expos had taken the first two in this three-game series, and such a beginning boded fatally for whatever pennant prospects remained for the Braves...
...sticky conditions and a heavy pitch helped slow the play down after that, but give high marks to dynamic freshmen Toure McCluskey and Ricky Le for injecting life into a game getting stale...
...pitch sounded so straightforward and practical in those TV commercials aired by the Republican Party over the summer. "We can make health insurance affordable now, without the Clinton government-run system . . . If you lose your job, you won't lose your coverage . . . Let's do it now!" That message, polls show, has resonated with the 85% of Americans who already have health insurance. Their priority, by and large, is to make their own coverage more secure and affordable, rather than to finance elaborate subsidies for the uninsured. And now that they have beaten back the major overhaul of health care...
...Channing whom one comes to see, and she exceeds expectations. Though she has played Dolly more than 4,000 times, her gawky, over-the-top performance is still heartfelt and honest, and the audience cheers her for it. There's more gravel in her baritone, but she is pitch-perfect and a mistress of timing. She can build a laugh into a roar by simply chewing. And her disdain is magnificent, contemplating a gift of "chocolate-covered peanuts -- unshelled...