Word: spitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some opponents insist that Fowler's pitchers are using more than sunflower seeds. Oakland, it has been widely charged, has become the home of the spitball. Fowler insists that he merely teaches his charges to throw the "dry spitter," a sinker that behaves just like the genuine article. Whatever it is, the A's pitchers do not yield threatening clouts very often. When they do, the fleetest outfield in baseball (and one of the heaviest-hitting) goes to work. Leftfielder Rickey Henderson (.348, 19 runs scored and ten steals), Centerfielder Dwayne Murphy (.280, 20 RBIs) and Rightfielder Tony...