Word: sandlots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...iron...you're dealing with a couple of guys well-versed in some of the sports we'll be covering. Howard Cosell once wrote a book called "I Never Played The Game," but we hope to prove that journalism and personal experience at a higher level than sandlot football can mesh on the sports page. Sean played high school basketball, football and baseball, and David likewise dabbled in varsity baseball and soccer...
...delivered this winter by the Hitman himself. What's the deal with Wade Boggs going to the accursed Yankees and telling the press he likes it there? Is this the same Chicken Man who did all the promos for the Jimmy fund and was the idol of every sandlot hitter in New England? Do you realize, Mr. Boggs, that you're wearing the same uniform that Bucky Dent donned when he killed our pennant hopes...
...comedy-music album that are already in the stores, plus a cable special now playing on Showtime. And Leary is starting to blanket the nation's movie screens, sending up a lounge singer in National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, playing a dad in the baseball comedy The Sandlot (due this spring) and starring as a street tough in the action drama Judgement Night (summer...
...argument goes. It does not convince most sandlot swamis, who know that even to hurl a baseball at 70 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h. is a preposterously unnatural activity. Many a splendid athlete has retired to an early car dealership after suffering a warped rotator cuff in his pitching arm. How could Ryan throw close to 100,000 pitches, most of them fast balls, in 24 pro seasons -- and get better...
...spokesman for Rawlings, the only glovemaker with a factory in the U.S. "There was a lot of initial resistance to the announcement from our competition. If they haven't satisfied the new requirements, we'll get more of the business." Glovemakers give big leaguers the mitts for free, but sandlot players have...