Word: babe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...habit of chattering on the Tonight show and of lunching with the glossy wives of moneyed men diminished his serious reputation as it increased his notoriety. He began to take on the appearance of a piffler, a court jester to such rich beauties as Babe Paley, wife of longtime CBS Chairman William Paley, and Slim Keith, wife of British Financier Lord Keith. Clarke comments that Capote looked upon the stylish rich "the way the Greeks looked upon their gods, with mingled awe and envy." To amuse these friends, he invented a game called International Daisy Chain, in which the point...
...father of a beer belch that could knock down every drop of loose water in the locker-room shower was, of course, Babe Ruth. "When the Babe left the train for the ball park," relates Pete Rose, as if Rose were not only alive then but could still smell the yeast, "he would remind the porter to have the bathtub full of beer by the time he returned." Rose got the story straight from Waite Hoyt, the late pitcher and alcoholic, who along with Third Baseman Joe Dugan was a pallbearer at Ruth's funeral in August...
...stay away from everything -- beer, whiskey, chewing tobacco, everything. But beer's not a problem with me." The Padres, Dodgers, Pirates, Angels and White Sox have yanked all the alcohol out of the clubhouse. Padres Reliever Goose Gossage reacted like Hagy and is now with the Cubs. "Poor Babe Ruth," Gossage grumbled. "He couldn't play today." Sure he could. But at least off the field he would have a harder time leading the league...
...Cardinals walked a ridiculous 136 times to lead the National League last season, even though he missed the final month of the season because of an injury. Had Clark remained healthy, the new Yankee would have had a shot at the major league record of 170 walks, which Babe Ruth set in 1923. Clark definitely would have broken the National League mark of 148, which is shared by a former Houston Astro and a former Brooklyn Dodger. Take three points for each sharp-eyed hitter you can name. Six points...
...Henry Aaron, Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Mize, Wille Mays and Babe Ruth were the five who did it all but in different years...