Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hangs out for an eternity. During this time, the pitcher rubs the ball, the batter adjusts his jock, the manager spits tobacco on his shoes, the batboy sprints across the field for no apparent reason, the owner sells a racetrack, the designated hitter does a line of coke, the fat slob in the fourth row spills his beer, the usher sells a We're Number One felt finger, the mascot kisses a bikini-clad fan, the general manager exiles a third baseman to Cleveland for a player to be named later, the organist plays a march, the crowd bellows "Charge...
...been strip-mined by those who preceded her -- Nora Ephron, Ellen Goodman and Anna Quindlen. A piece about the split between women who shave their legs and those who don't would have to come up with some dazzling insights to merit another look. Ditto painted nails, being fat or single...
Critics of baseball joke about the fat athletes who could not make it in the "real" sports. But really, closer examination shows that baseball may very well be the most difficult of all the major sports to master...
...woman is told, "You are too thin" or "You are too fat," she has been subjected her to an overwhelmingly external evaluation. Given the importance of a woman's body image in our society, the evaluation is more than presumptious and unnecessary. It is a value judgement...
...understand that now, and I do not easily forgive myself when I identify women as "the one with the powerful thighs" or "kind of stout." It makes me nauseated to hear men in the Yard say things like "She can't be fat, because she's supposed to have all these guys after...