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...anticipating his first Harvard-Yale game, is spending every free minute thinking of clever pick-up lines for the Yale female students he expects to meet this weekend. “You may go to what was my safety school but you’re not my safety babe, uh, babe” Hortence muttered...
Morris says he developed the simple RPG formula over 20 years ago, but only began calling sportswriters to let them know about the statistic when he calculated that a team of nine 2002 Bondses would score an astronomical 22.4 runs per game—smashing the record held by Babe Ruth of 18.5 runs per nine innings in 1923. “What’s bugging me,” he says, “is that this incredible thing is happening and nobody notices. I wanted to make sure people knew it. Imagine if when Bonds...
...offense. Baseball's stat packers have called his 2001 season one of the best ever. At 37, Bonds hit 73 home runs, breaking Mark McGwire's record. Not only did Bonds hit more dingers, he needed 33 fewer at bats to do it. And he walked 177 times, breaking Babe Ruth's record for perambulation...
...were among the top moments. Only one of the ten cited a pitcher's performance, with Nolan Ryan's 7th no hitter, at the age of 44, sneaking in at No. 10. (For the fans, apparently, baseball is only 10% pitching.) Oh, and does anyone remember a fellow named Babe Ruth? He was so far ahead of the terrific players of his time that in 1927, when he hit his 60 homers, only one other player had even half as many - Gehrig, with...
...Righteous Babe...