Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the wind blowing, the breaking stuff was going everywhere," Lancette said. "Bryan did a tremendous job blocking the plate in those conditions. He also threw out a runner trying to advance on a wild pitch...
...French writer named Denis de Rougemont attended a Nazi rally in Nuremburg and recorded a stunning experience. The long-awaited arrival of Adolf Hitler threw the crowd into a frenzy. Screams of delight mounted to a ferver pitch as the man drew nearer, until the surging mass of the people gave way to utter hysteria. Rougemont felt something uncontrollable stir within him--the thrill of mass hysteria--and so powerful was the feeling that he almost succumbed. But something withing him rebelled. Ionesco relates Rougemont's story with curiosity in his notes from November 1960; "just then...
UGLY: But wait, there's more. Reds outfielder Reggie Sanders has just been given a justly-deserved five-day suspension for charging the mound after being hit by a pitch of the Expos' Pedro Martinez...
...bright, brisk spring afternoon last week, Bill Clinton threw out the first ball at the Cleveland Indians' opening-day game. But his pitch, high and over the plate, was more than the usual springtime rite. The President helped kick off the baseball season in Jacobs Field, a sleek, brand-new, $169 million stadium, a large chunk of which was financed by a 4.5 cents-a-pack local tax on cigarettes. Yet no one, no matter where they are sitting, is permitted to smoke in the open-air stands...
After the Clintons ended their vacation by pitching ceremonial baseballs on the opening day of the season -- he in Cleveland, Ohio, she in Chicago -- the President took to the road to pitch his health-care reform proposal. At one televised town meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, Mr. Clinton took some heavy hits from questioners who challenged him on foreign policy and Whitewater. "Let me be President in 1994 while somebody else worries about what happened in 1979," an irritated Clinton responded...