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Sheffield is no young buck himself at age 35, but he did just fine playing in 155 games last year. He also brings a sharp eye (just 55 K’s last season) to the strike-out heavy New York lineup. In comparison, Garcia struck out 52 times in 76 games...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love It Or Leeve It: Yankees Beating Red Sox Just Like They Always Do | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

Coyle's narrative follows the Kikuyus, an endearing collection of woofers, goofers, complainers, excusemakers, big talkers, strike-out artists and wavers at fly balls. They are a fairly normal group of eight-to-12-year-olds, except for a higher than average incidence of male relatives dead or in jail, and except for their conversation. After one girl gangster shoots at another but misses, a gentle 10-year-old Kikuyu says, "I think I heard the bullet. It go fooooosh, right past my head." His buddy scoffs, "What, you never seen nobody do no shootin' before? Man, I seen that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busters At Bat | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...most recognizable physiques. Very visible to start with because of his 6'4, 250-lb fame, he became even more conspicuous on the field with a variety of never before-seen histrionics: the sextuple pump out call, the "outoutoutoutoutout" call at first base, the smoking finger gun-downs of strike-out victims. Luciano animated baseball's mundanities, no runs, no hits, no men left could...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: A Little Boy in the Big Leagues | 3/12/1982 | See Source »

...Engelmayer's argument is that these ideas will not "put a strike-out king on base." Indeed not, nor is any such thing ever claimed. Knowing the best process to aim for in a negotiation will improve your chance of achieving a satisfactory outcome, but it certainly cannot guarantee results. Neither can understanding the theory of calisthenics make you physically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Negotiating Theory | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...being said" and to "make the most of your assets." That's sort of like reminding a baseball batter to remember to bring his bat to the plate, and to keep his eye on the ball: You can't dispute the ideas, but they won't put a strike-out king on base...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: An Untenable Proposition | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

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