Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Croteau also encountered many sexist actions by the opposing teams. She says that pitchers intentionally hit her or walked the batter in front of her so that they could pitch...
...long, winter off-season, we pretend to be interested in other sports, but most of us are only statues, disembodied figures who are waiting for that first pitch, that first crack...
Before the game, Oil Can watches an episode of the Geraldo Rivera Show featuring people mentally obsessed with sweetened breakfast cereal. He boldly proclaims, "I was a Cap'n Crunch addict." He repents of his past transgressions and goes on to pitch the game of his life...
...enraged and unloads a barrage of fast balls at the new luxury boxes in Fenway Park. He tears a rotator cuff and inadvertantly kills Joe ("I never played for Cincinnati") Morgan when the loveable Sox manager, trying to calm down his excitable player, gets in the way of a pitch...
...prime market for Hybels' soft-sell pitch is what he calls "unchurched Harrys," 25-to-45-year-old professionals who have become disenchanted with the stodgy ritual and sanctimoniousness of many traditional churches. "This is the generation that grew up on television," says Hybels. "You have to present religion to them in a creative and visual way." The multimedia weekend services are primarily intended to attract this group into the church. Holding them together is the job of the more Bible-based Wednesday-evening services and the church's 70 subministries. In addition to offering the traditional Sunday school programs...