Word: throwbacks
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Standing in the field with Walsh and hearing him talk about baseball, one can almost see the surroundings fade to a grainy black and white as he produces another screenplay-worthy yarn. And Walsh’s throwback nature is evident when he coaches. He lives on sacrifice bunts and hustle. He’ll call entire games from the dugout if he feels its necessary—although his two young catchers, Kropf and freshman Schuyler Mann, have done a capable enough job that Walsh usually feels content to let them run the show...
...this way, Walsh the baseball man can be a joy to watch—even though some of the decisions that stem from his throwback mentality might make an objective observer cringe...
...coach know how many pitches Crockett had thrown? Walsh may be a throwback, but he’s no relic. He knew that senior Nick Carter had thrown 67 pitches by the fourth inning of his first career start a couple weeks back, and pulled him. Walsh is well aware of the pitch count—he has simply decided that Crockett, who only throws once a week, can battle through 120-plus pitches per start...
...despite the fact that his likeness is universally known, the associations it conjures up are rarely those of a serious artist. Even much of Elvis’ residual fan-base has fallen into the trap of celebrating The King as little more than a lurid joke, a historical throwback or a great excuse for an outrageous costume party. If there is one thing this caricature of a man—a man lost in his own world of sex, drugs and blue velvet—seems to have lost, it is his relevance to contemporary music and pop culture...
...show began to feel like a progressive rock arena concert from the 1970s or 1980s. Perhaps it was the ethereal synthesizers or the towering stacks of speakers that flanked the stage, but it was largely the lighting design that lent the concert a surreal, throwback air. New-age images and silhouetted trees played against floor-to-ceiling cloth banners while colored lights cut through the machine-smoke haze of the auditorium, adding a visual overload to the musical excess...