Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walk around Soldiers Field with a three-iron for hours asking people if they saw the tee shot you hit from the other side of the Charles...
...Walk around with grease paint under your eyes on sunny days...
Hassler saved Stanley with his rally-quashing stint, but Baker suffered a worse fate. A leadoff walk to Butch Hobson and a hit-and-run single by pinch-hitter (for George Scott) Jack Brohamer sent Baker to the showers after five innings of near-perfect work. With John Hiller on the mound for Detroit, Jason Thompson nearly killed the rally by gunning pinch-runner Frank Duffy at the plate with one out, but Mr. Remy coolly stroked his game-winning single to centerfield moments later...
There were other distractions in Thurmont besides the absence of news. The press center dispensed cheap booze (35? for a beer, 50? for hard stuff). Idle journalists could walk the length of Thurmont's main street in about seven minutes or gawk at ABC's Barbara Walters and Anchor Frank Reynolds as they tried to negotiate the town's narrow streets in their matching chauffeur-driven Fleetwood limousines...
Brackman seems to have to ability to walk into major projects. He must be a lucky man, evidenced by his version of how he got involved with King of Marvin Gardens: "I knew Rafelson and I met his wife in New York, who told me he was going to Big Sur to think about his new film. This was just after Five Easy Pieces. I called him and convinced him to hire me to come out and talk about what his new film should be. It was very much writtern-to-order, incorporating elements I really wanted to deal with...