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...askew. In Carew's playroom is a 2-ft.-high trophy--the Joe Cronin Award--all polished wood and gleaming brass. The American League presented it to the great lefthanded hitter in recognition of his fourth consecutive batting championship. On top of the trophy stands the likeness of a batter--a righthanded batter. Carew is fonder of the Medal of Honor given to him by his native Panama. Says he proudly: "I'm the only athlete ever to have...
...Prince,” Harry “Power of Love” Potter and friends are suddenly and embarrassingly horny. Sometimes this is (literally) charming: when her love interest hooks up with another girl, for instance, Hermione conjures a flock of twittering birds to attack him, and they batter him all the way to the door “like a hail of fat golden bullets.” But elsewhere the romance feels uninspired; Rowling is apparently a little too far away from adolescence to remember youthful flings as anything more than triumphs in physical awkwardness, as scene...
...components, are described in Pentagonese worthy of Star Wars. Vanilla flavoring is called for "in such quantities that its presence shall be organoleptically detected, but not to a pronounced degree." Translation: having some taste and smell. Preparation instructions run on for five pages, requiring that "the blended fruitcake batter, sufficient to yield the specified weight, shall then be deposited into cans with liners and disks" and baked at not more than 375 or steamed "to meet the end requirements of 3.5," another section of MIL-F-14499F...
...very pennant--came down to one pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning with two out and the winning run on third, McRae was at the plate poised to be the hero. But Pittsburgh's Bob Moose threw a wild pitch that utterly erased the figure in the batter's box from memory. With the bases loaded in the seventh game of the World Series, McRae managed only to tie the Oakland A's with a deep fly that missed being a home run by a distance too slight to become the measure of a 17-year career...
...field, Herrmann remains dogged. It is commonplace to see the broad-shouldered pitcher—Walsh once reported that Herrmann could play a passable linebacker for football coach Tim Murphy—pop his glove with a growl after striking out a batter to end an inning...