ЭТИМОЛОГИЯ СЛОВА LEFT-FIELD
From baseball term left field, the area of the outfield to the batter's left, regarded as the scene of little action.
ЦИТАТЫ СО СЛОВОМ «LEFT-FIELD»
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left-field.
There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.
My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
An eye-opening look at one of baseball's little known stories : the relationship between Jews & Black baseball in Jim Crow America, this text explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals & a team of black Jews called the ...
Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert,
2011
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The Boy from
Left Field
Did it land in the waters of Lake Ontario and disintegrate over time? Or did someone fish it out? This is the story of a quest for a lost baseball treasure, and of a boy finding his own family roots and a place in the big city.
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Studies Out in
Left Field: Defamatory Essays Presented to ...
Transformational Grammar's Underground Classic!
Arnold M. Zwicky, Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick,
1992
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Left Field, Reloaded: More Cartoons by Randy Halford
"Left Field, Reloaded" is artist/author Randy Halford's second cartoon book collection of everything else in the world.
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The Devil's Snake Curve: A Fan's Notes From
Left Field
A humorous, historical, and hirsute miscellany that's the baseball book Howard Zinn would have written, if he hated the Yankees.
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Left Field: Over 1,000 Amazing Baseball Facts You've ...
Presents obscure baseball lore and trivia drawn from old newspapers, interviews with players, and visits to ballparks
Jeffrey Lyons, Douglas B. Lyons,
1998
A former Southampton, Blackburn, Chelsea and England full-back, the erudite and engaging Graeme Le Saux is far removed from the archetypal British footballer.
Graeme Le Saux, Oliver Holt,
2007
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Left Field Strikes Back!: The Third Onslaught of Cartoons
Randy Halford's continuing cartoon saga "strikes back" indeed with an all new batch of satire. Often absurd and silly-and occasionally controversial-"Left Field Strikes Back" ruthlessly attacks the funny bone and takes no prisoners.
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Left Field Controls the Universe: The Cosmic Cartoon Collection
"Funnier than a cheesy spaceship that sounds like a buzz saw" --- Flash Gordon "Cartoon humor that goes to infinity ... and beyond!
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Left Field: How the Mariners Made Baseball Fly in Seattle
Presents a history of the Seattle Mariners, from their first season in 1977, through a decade of losing seasons, until their resurgance in the 1990s with star players and winning teams.
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Town hope signing wings in from left-field
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