Word: aarons
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Before Henry Aaron, you see, Atlanta's baseball memories were already lush and full. Hardly new to baseball or winning, Atlanta until now had just been having a bad streak...
...league in stolen bases as well (1932). 14. Comskey Park in Chicago has a 445' centerfield wall. 15. Al Kaline. 16. Wayne Granger (1972 for the Reds). 17. Cy Young and Jim Bunning. 18. "Shoeless" Joe Jackson with a 356 B.A. 19. Al Downing of the Dodgers who like Aaron, also wore no 44. 20. The Angels were 86-76 in 1962. 21. On May 15, 1912 the Tigers went on strike for one day to protest the suspension of their best player, Ty Cobb. 22. Walt Dropo drove in 144 RBIs in 1950. 23. Gene Conley played for both...
...gave up Hank Aaron's 715th home run? Bonus of two points if you know what Hank and his nemesis had in common...
...Princeton debate panel president decided against wearing "either a toga or a tux to the finals." This last round is in grave Nassau Hall, where, the hosts claim, Princeton Students James Madison and Aaron Burr held forth, off-topic, 211 years ago. The Princetonians want the debaters to heed the chamber's cavernous propriety. "To waste this room on worn-out double-entendres would be sacrilege," says Bob West, '81, back for the tournament. Indeed, the puncturing blasphemies are scarce during the final round. (Only one wispy student, speaking from the floor and pointing to the room...
Even when the subject is not biblical, a whiff of another world comes off many of the works: Sam Doyle's portrait of Dr. Buz, the voodoo man, getting instructions from his conch shell, or the extraordinary sculptures of charred old wood made by Jesse Aaron (1887-1979), totems and animals whose sheer metamorphic intensity would blow late Dubuffet out of any museum. The strength of Aaron's work owed everything to his belief that his task was to release the latent image from the log, where it was trapped. "God put the faces in the wood...