Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...week, he thought he’d have to quit. But the pain subsided enough for him to finish out a mediocre season. He batted just .188 with a single home run for the Wareham Gatemen—though to be fair, it was with a wooden bat in a pitcher’s league—but even with a frayed labrum only three players on the roster played more games than...
...warm March day, five human teams tied to wooden sleighs and 1,049 ounces of beer greeted t-shirt sporting spectators outside the Science Center for the first annual human dogsled race...
...some five minutes away from each another in their native Ontario and saw each other often, playing hockey in the Corriero basement that had been furnished for hockey. Designed by Nicholas Corriero, Nicole’s father, the plywood-covered room boasts a shooting range, a net, and a wooden goalie—a prerequisite to their future power plays with Harvard...
Without sports, Manny Ramirez is a nobody. His only marketable skill—the ability to hit a ball with a wooden stick with some regularity—doesn’t really lend itself to any profession besides the one that he finds himself currently employed in. Ramirez cannot be great without baseball...
...week, stately stone Buddhas commingle with Greek gods and goddesses, an Iranian prince, and a bare-chested warrior with a rosy complexion and deep blue eyes. A dragon-edged jade disk vies for attention against vases of swirling Roman glass, Byzantine gold coins and a curious flock of tiny wooden geese that could almost pass for miniatures of the sculptures of Henry Moore. If not for the captions to remind us where the motley 300 objects on display were unearthed, it might be easy to forget that the subject of the show is China...