Word: alomar
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Leaders(as of 5/15) Batting AVG Dykstra, Philadelphia .387 Duncan, Cincinnati .382 Alomar, San Diego .371 Larkin, Cincinnati .364 Sabo, Cincinnati .354 Home Runs HR Dawson, Chicago 9 Bonilla, Pittsburgh 8 GDavis, Houston 7 HJohnsons, New York 7 Mitchell, San Francisco 7 Saves Saves Burke, Montreal 8 DaSmith, Houston 8 Franco, New York 7 MiWilliams, Chicago 7 Myers, Cincinnati 7 McDowell, Philadelphia...
...well. Lodger, released in 1979, was a purging and a burial. As he had on two previous albums, Bowie worked with the intense Art Rock Composer Brian Eno (Ambient 1: Music for Airports). Boys Keep Swinging mixed Bowie's band with instruments they did not normally play. Guitarist Carlos Alomar, for example, found himself playing drums. Bowie then took the chord changes from Boys Keep Swinging, played them at nearly half speed and came up with a romantic ballad, Fantastic Voyage. Bowie's classic raver for Mott the Hoople, All the Young Dudes, was played backward and turned into Move...
Bowie's musical skills remained sharp, his sense of musical direction undiverted. Fame, from 1975's Young Americans, was co-written with John Lennon and Carlos Alomar; the result, besides being Bowie's biggest single up till then, has a good claim to being the first breakthrough disco song. By 1975 he was living in Los Angeles, in a vast rented house in Bel Air, keeping company with dabblers in black magic and refusing to see his old friends. One of them, who managed to penetrate his defenses, recalls watching Bowie work his way through a long night of coke...
...lefthander Bill Lee and Yankee ace Doc Medich dueled brilliantly for nine and a half innings. But in the Yankee half of the tenth, Alomar led off with a walk. Substitute shortstop Fred Stanley followed with a perfect sacrifice bunt that got Alomar to second...
Yankee designated hitter Roy White then hit a high chopper between third base and the pitcher's mound. By the time the ball came down, however, White was safe at first and Alomar was standing on third. Centerfielder Maddox followed and hit the very first pitch on the ground through the right side for a base...