Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...control, a viewer can bring up a menu of options (displayed as buttons on the screen). Click on one, and the image of the batter at the plate shrinks to make room for the score and the player's stats - RBIs, home runs and batting average - updated with every pitch. Click again, and you see the Mariners' home schedule. Click yet again, and a diagram of the Kingdome pops up, showing available seats and pricing. Click one more time, and you have ordered a pair of field box seats on the first-base side (and reduced your credit-card balance...
Ever since Abner Doubleday tossed out the first pitch in Cooperation around 1860, the key to success at baseball has been pitching and defense, pitching and defense, pitching and defense...
Giardi drew a walk, and first baseman junior Dave Morgan blasted a 2-0 pitch from O'Flynn 400 feet into dead center field...
...NOTEBOOK: The professional scouts turned out in force to watch Mitchell pitch. Mitchell's fastball was clocked at 87 miles per hour, according to one bystandar...Also overheard from the scouts, about the ambidextrous Irving: "Too bad he's not a closer. With two arms, he could pitch every day of the wee. Cheaper...
...women do get out of the house, as indicated by two surprise hits of 1992: Sister Act, whose star, Whoopi Goldberg, could earn a man-size $7.5 million for the sequel, and Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own. Now, says Obst, "it's easier for me to pitch movies that are close to my heart because I have more models I can point...