Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robbed by Nettles on a bases-loaded play that would have swung the game, Lopes said with amazement and admiration: "It was the best exhibition of defense I've ever seen since I've been playing pro ball. He saved at least six runs." Enough said; the Yanks...
...fourth game was a searing drama of pitcher vs. hitter, mano a mano. Bob Welch came into a 3-3 game in the eighth inning and once again blew heat past the big Yankee bats. Six New Yorkers went down in order...
...reported $2.75 million over 6 years. He finished his first season in pinstripes by saving 27 games and compiling an earned run average of 2.01, impressive figures attained by totally unsubtle yet highly effective means: throwing a baseball at better than 95 m.p.h. Facing the Dodgers, Gossage retired six hitters of his own. The Yankees finally got their bats around on Welch in the tenth inning, winning 4-3 on Lou Piniella's opposite-field single. With New York and Los Angeles tied at two games each, the 1978 World Series began all over again...
...from dawn until dusk, his father died of a heart attack in his early 30s. when Crews was not quite two. Not long afterward, his mother married his father's older brother Pascal. The result was catastrophic. Pascal drank, the couple quarreled, and after he discharged his shotgun six inches above his wife's head, she fled with her children to Jacksonville. A few months later, she returned to work the farm herself...
...does one write an autobiography confined to the first six years? Crews listened. The image of farmers sitting on their front porches in the sun and reminiscing is more than myth; it was from these garrulous sources that Crews acquired both his material and the lively idiom that animates his narrative. "A way of life gone forever out of the world" is recalled in these pages, enriched by a wealth of unlikely lore: how to estimate a mule's age, cook a possum, butcher...