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...only did the Blacklick, OH. native go 3-4 with two RBI but he hit one over the Green Monster. That's right--he didn't make a short free throw at the Boston Garden or sing the national anthem at the super Bowl; with grace and power, accompanied by the pure crack of the bat, he drilled one into the net over the Monster. And there was no doubt about it. Everyone knew that this one was gone...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Dreams | 4/19/1995 | See Source »

...little town of Nanty Glo* in west Pennsylvania's Blacklick Valley lay deserted in the rain. On Roberts Street, where most of the town's stores are, trade was at a standstill. A few women in cloth coats, hunched under umbrellas, trudged through the cold downpour that denied the spring time promise of the imperceptibly greening hills. The rain came down ceaselessly, sluicing and gurgling through the empty back yards, past privies and chicken coops, under the broken wooden sidewalks, running at last into the muddy waters of Blacklick Creek, the narrow stream that bisects the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Stream of Coal | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

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