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Last year's spectacle, in the era of the bunny ball, was dour Roger Maris grimly slugging 61 home runs over assorted fences to break Babe Ruth's 34-year-old record. The day seemed not far off when bleacher fans would wear the gloves and ballplayers would drink the beer. But this year, excitement suddenly came back to baseball-at least in ballparks where a coil-spring, 30-year-old shortstop named Maury Wills was playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 161 games, with two games to go, Wills stole an even 100 bases, shattering...
...calling of the Kentucky Derby; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Only once did Clem err, swapping first-and second-place finishers in the 1947 Preakness because they wore look-alike silks. Not the man to flinch, he rasped: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a horrible mistake. Babe Ruth struck out. Today I did the same...
...League record set by Bonus Wagner 45 years ago in 1917. Nor is that likely to be the end of it. If Musial can maintain anything like his blazing early-season pace-.322 batting average-he will pass two more baseball milestones by the time the season is out: Babe Ruth's record of 1,356 extra-base hits, set in 1935, and Ty Cobb's mark of 5,863 total bases...
...Malvolio, Thom Babe exhibits control far beyond refusing "cakes and ale." Dour and stern at the start, he convinces us that he has heard no bells at midnight; and so, when he breaks into smiles and puts on yellow stockings, the joke succeeds superbly...
...Senior Class Committee selected to serve as Junior Ushers graduation: Thomas J. Babe, (Kirkland, William B. Bacon, (Lowell), Fred, Ballard, (Leverett), Stanton J. , (Eliot), Robert A. Bronstein, ), Charles R. Breyer, (Winthrop), V. Chace, (Lowell), Anthony D. , (Eliot), Michael R. Deland, ), Richard C. Diehl, (Kirkland), L. Goldman, (Kirkland), Anthony , (Adams), Robert W. Gordon, ), Ezra E. H. Griffith, (Lowell), M. Hamlin, (Winthrop), David L. ton, (Dunster), Lewis B. Kaden, ), Charles H. Klopf, (Adams), David M. Kozloff, (Dunster...