Word: play
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blew ourselves out," Lem said. "If we continue to play like we did today, we might as well stay home...
...worst game I have ever seen the girls play," Lem said...
...brilliant play of Harvard Co-Captains Manda Schossberger and Carolyn Burger was neutralized by the efforts of Holy Cross juniors Shannon McMann, Jennifer Woozniak and Maura Sullivan. The Crusaders used their superior size and strength, making it difficult for the Crimson to convert on its attack strategies...
...America they call it baseball. In Japan it's pronounced besuboru, but the form of the game in both countries is identical: umpires, nine players, walks, strikeouts, double plays and, of course, home runs (homu ran). Aside from a few quirky exceptions -- ties are permitted after twelve innings -- the Japanese play baseball by American rules. It's been that way since 1873, when the game was introduced in Japan and soon became the national obsession as well as the national sport. Yet as journalist Robert Whiting notes in his new book You Gotta Have Wa (Macmillan), the style and, most...
Such jocks-apposed strategies come down hardest on the two American players who are permitted to play on each of Japan's twelve major-league professional teams. Usually older, fading stars, the Yanks go to Japan confident that they know how to play baseball, only to be promptly disabused of that notion. Japanese managers are ironhanded disciplinarians who believe that great players are made, not born, and they try to reshape the foreign players into the Japanese mold. The Americans, intense individualists that they are, rebel. The Japanese conclude that the Americans are rude, lazy, and worse, lacking...