Word: popup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yastrzemski chose to swing at the Goose's second offering, a tailing, low inside fastball, and the result was a fluffernut popup that fell easily in Graig Nettles' glove for the final...
...with a penchant for hitting into double plays, and Milt ("Skippy") Byrnes, a 4-F with a bronchial condition. One of their catchers, Frank Mancuso, was a former lieutenant who had injured his back during parachute training; he could neither remain in the Army nor look skyward for a popup. For pitchers they had Denny Galehouse, who had kept his deferment by working during the week in a war plant, and a brawling drunkard named Sigmund ("Jack") Jakucki...
Harvard continued its comeback in the bottom of the seventh, as John Friar scored on Ric LaCivita's double. A strikeout and a popup, however, left LaCivita stranded on second as Luongo squashed the rally...
...genius of the movie lies in its introduction of the one subject that superbly conditioned young men rarely think about: death. Their efforts to come to grips with it, to handle it nonchalantly, as if it were an easy popup, are shy, deeply touching and completely winning. De Niro's doomed bumpkin is wonderfully exasperating, one of the most unsympathetic characters ever to win an audience's sympathy. Moriarty's Wiggen captures a young celebrity in the moment just before his public persona has iced over his humanity. Gardenia's manager is a perfect study...