Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...year anniversary of Finch’s tryout remains a sober reminder of unfulfilled promise. In the meantime, new Harvard legends abound...
...were nine years old when Corriero came to her first tryout practice with the Scarborough Sharks, a local Canadian pee-wee team for girls...
...wanted to put her on JV her first year,” Delaney-Smith said. “I let her take part in preseason, and she blew me away in the tryout. There was no way I couldn’t take...
...kids and each other, is playing at only one theater--in Grand Rapids. What began as a two-week engagement has turned into the longest test-marketing of a film in U.S. history. Director Bob Shallcross, who wrote the screenplay for the peewee football epic Little Giants, picked this tryout location in part because he thought the conservative burg would appreciate Nino's homespun message about savoring life's simple pleasures, and in part because that's where he found a theater exec willing to give the $3 million film some screen time. No one expected that the crowds would...
...promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is--they hadn't yet decamped for San Francisco). The prospect made a decent showing: three innings, three men on base, no runs scored. Good screwball, nice sinker, not much heat. "If somebody had offered me a Class D professional contract," says the prospect--whose name was Tom Wolfe--many decades later, "I would have gladly put off writing for a couple of decades...