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...violence (the wallop) in a gentle sport. And that is why, of the 2,500 or so pitches a healthy player sees each season, so few are driven out of the yard. Once upon a time, in the year of Lucky Lindy and The Jazz Singer, a giant named Babe hit 60 homers. Decades later, decades ago, in J.F.K.'s first year as President, a man named Roger Maris spanked 61. Great hitters emerged before and since, but hardly anyone challenged the sacred stat...
...muscles will earn them big bucks. Ruth knew that too, but he was able to belt taters while defiling the temple of his body. He indulged in illegal drugs (alcohol during Prohibition) and occasionally the illicit honey of a hooker's caress. No one seemed to mind. The Babe was a swaggering kid, a genius and a naif, having fun being the best. McGwire took some time reaching that state of athletic nirvana known as "the groove." For his good and the game's, he seems to be there...
...historical analogue. In 19 big-league seasons with six teams, Zachary won 186 games and managed to collect two World Series rings, one with the Washington Senators in 1924 and one with the storied St. Louis Cardinals in 1926. But Zachary's best-known feat remains tossing the hanger Babe Ruth hit for number...
...waves through the aviation industry. Both Swissair and the MD-11 have impeccable reputations; indeed, Swissair maintenance workers are in great demand and often help out at other airlines. They have not had a single crash in nearly 20 years. The downed plane was seven years old, a mere babe in industry terms. "This was a descendant of the DC-10," says TIME aviation expert Jerry Hannifin, "and a hell of a reliable stable airplane." Nevertheless, there was one incident last year at Newark Airport in which a Federal Express-owned MD-11 crashed on landing. That investigation is ongoing...
...ruddy-faced attorney is almost defiantly uncool (a favorite catchphrase: "What're the facts, babe?"). And defiant, period. He has described his cross-examination technique as "going for the jugular." But if he's prepared to be a tough legal mind, he remains profoundly reticent about the political role he may be asked to play. "Every once in a while it hits you," Schippers has said. "It really hit me when I took my wife to the Jefferson Memorial. If you stand at Mr. Jefferson's feet and you look where he's looking, you see right into the Oval...