Word: babe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prompting the Yankees to retire Joe's uniform No. 5. Other retired uniforms: Lou Gehrig's No. 4; Babe Ruth...
...most: scoring goals. Detroit Goalie Terry Sawchuck, with a last-ditch deflection, stopped the Rocket's shot, but in ten seasons of National Hockey League play, few goalies have been able to stop the Montreal Canadiens' Richard for long. In Canada and the U.S., he is the Babe Ruth of professional ice hockey...
...South Africa, Eric Rowan is as heroic a figure as Joe DiMaggio or Babe Ruth is in the U.S. Playing cricket against England last summer, Rowan, vice captain of his team and opening batsman, scored 236 runs, highest individual score any South African player ever made in a test match. But later, at Old Trafford, the Manchester cricket ground, Rowan made a different kind of sensation. When the crowd decided, he was "stonewalling" (i.e., batting a wholly defensive game), it gave him cricket's equivalent of a Bronx cheer-slow, rhythmic handclaps. Infuriated, Rowan sat down on the "pitch...
...sociology: "We spend all our time debunking. We have no heroes, so how can you expect the young people to have any? We destroy them all. We've even done it in the sports world. Kids today feel they have to go all the way back to Babe Ruth to find a hero. Today the only heroes are the ones whom they can't destroy. And who are those? The heroes of the comic strips...
...near Tacoma, where one orthopedic patient in a traction harness demanded a pair of socks to cover his naked feet before the noted visitor arrived. At the Bremerton Naval Hospital, a sailor achieved fame of sorts in his ward when he saw Rita and asked: "Who's that babe...