The entire play took eight seconds from the crack of the bat to the umpire's calling out Long.
The ball landed at least 30 feet behind him, meaning he had misjudged it from the crack of Bellhorn's bat.
He found a neglected lot behind a nearby bus depot at the northern end of Second Avenue, a half-block from the Crack Is Wack Playground.
Reisman writes in "The Money Player," "Outfielders in baseball often can judge the flight of a ball from the crack it makes as it comes off the bat.
In the era of "broken windows," the incident translated Detective Thumper's speech from the crack epidemic and took it to a fatal extreme.
Some Panda-related facts from the crack PR staff here at the ballpark: * His is the ninth three-homer game in postseason history.
There were the city's worst periods of crime, from the crack epidemic in the 1980s to the soaring homicide rates of the early 1990s.
Francis Joseph's spartan ways are especially evident in the study where he toiled at his desk from the crack of dawn.
"The thing is," Batmanghelidjh says, by way of explanation, "I can go from the crack den to the palace and not change outfits".
In Beijing, reaction times — the getaway speed of a runner, measured from the crack of the pistol — flash up on the stadium screens, and they showed that Bolt the finalist had been sluggish off the blocks.
Fig. 4 Volumetric strain changes resulting from the crack opening.
