Word: babe
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...piece of a new picture. Cleared to participate in the next Olympics, the National Basketball Association plans to contribute one team to a Milan tournament in October and assign two others to open next season in Tokyo. Japan's association with American baseball, of course, goes back to Babe Ruth. Just last November, on a typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing all sports...
During Henry Aaron's 1974 stalk of the lifetime home-run record set by Babe Ruth (who dispensed autographs cheerfully and without charge but never could fathom their allure), Aaron took the alias of Diefendorfer in an attempt to throw off his pursuers. He registered that way in out-of-the-way havens and avoided the company of his Atlanta Braves teammates. But a small boy with a ball-point pen still found him in a cavern of the stadium. "Are you a Brave?" the boy asked. Aaron was charmed. "Sure am, son," he replied with a great laugh...
...generation -- "Never trust anyone under 30," he declared -- he never stopped protesting. It was Timothy Leary, the advance scout of the LSD generation, who eulogized Hoffman most deftly last week. "An American legend," Leary called him. "Right up there in the hall of fame with rebel Huck Finn, rowdy Babe Ruth and crazy Lenny Bruce...
...When you think of homers, you think of 1961, when New York Yankee Roger Maris hit 61 roundtrippers to break Babe Ruth's single-season record. Teammate Mickey Mantle hit 54. The M & M boys helped the Yankees shatter the team record for home runs in a season (240). While the Yanks were tearing up the American League, who led the National League in homers during the 1961 season...
...something about both. Seventy-two springs ago, he was the Pacific Coast League Angels' eleven-year-old batboy for "Peerless" Frank Chance. Playing with the Yankees in 1930, Reese and Lefty Gomez split a $2-a- day suite at the new Edison Hotel. On the road, Jimmie stayed with Babe Ruth. "I roomed with the Babe's luggage, mostly," he says in a tone of wake- me-when-a-better-carouser-comes-along. "He was up all day and at 'em all night. When it was Ruth in the peephole, the speakeasy doors couldn't open fast enough...