Word: socked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turns out, however, that the space between the bottom of our doors and the floor is as thin as linguine. Opening and closing our doors thus becomes a major ordeal, worse than maneuvering an overstuffed sock drawer at eight-thirty in the morning...
...Clark cannot do it all, and despite impressive home-run help from his partner in the so-called Pacific Sock Exchange, Kevin Mitchell, as well as from slugger Matt Williams, the Giants seem outgunned overall by the Bash Brothers & Associates. More important, the A's boast the best pitching staff in baseball: Dave Stewart (21-9), Mike Moore (19-11), Storm Davis (19-7) and Bob Welch (17-8). For a closer in relief they call on Dennis Eckersley, who saved 33 games in the regular season and three more against the Blue Jays in the playoffs...
...manager Tony LaRussa properly pooh-poohed the A's 8-1 record against the Giants during spring training and professed concern about the Sock Exchange. Giants manager Roger Craig, ever the optimist, pointed out that "we've got ; men who respond to challenge. We've battled back all year long." But as the series opened last Saturday, hard-eyed bookmakers in Reno made the A's odds-on favorites to win the Battle...
...first ever Bay Bridge World Series pits the batting fireworks of Oakland's Bash Brothers vs. San Francisco's Sock Exchange, and Hot Dog Henderson vs. Will the Thrill...
From the Washington Bureau--A reporter at last Sunday's March on Washington for abortion rights, suffering from a bleeding ankle and too little sleep, was milling around the Harvard Radcliffe delegation when an unidentified woman came up to her and said, "Your foot is bleeding--you need some socks. Take these." The reporter did as instructed, but when she turned around to thank the sock-giver, the mysterious benefactor had disappeared...