Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLIAM H. DAVIS Cincinnati...
...real good bike," he said. Black, polished, stripped, Kenny's 500cc bike didn't look very special, though. "I had it set up by a guy from Cincinnati down for the big races here in March. You just take all the cylinders and parts and balance them to the thousandth of an inch...
Leaving the Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium the afternoon before the season's opening game. Witteman looked up to see a dark "funnel" looming in the distant sky. "At first I didn't know what it was," he recalled. By the next morning he learned that it was only one of many tornadoes that had smashed through eleven states (see THE NATION); the twisters had devastated half the city of Xenia, Ohio, only 60 miles away. Witteman called New York and was told to report on the Xenia tragedy-after the game...
That is the way it will look some day in the record book. Last week it was flesh and blood, bat and ball; it was one man and the memory of another at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. Barely ten minutes into his 21st major league season, Henry Louis Aaron stood at the plate with two Atlanta Brave teammates on base and a count of three balls and one strike. Around him were 52,000 expectant fans. Behind him were six months of anxiety and anticipation. Hanging over him was Babe Ruth's most celebrated feat-714 lifetime home runs...
...Cincinnati Pitcher Jack Billingham threw a fastball-which, he later admitted, got away. An instant later, Aaron's home-run ball No. 714 cleared the 375-ft. marker in left centerfield and bounced into the hands of a startled policeman, Clarence Williams, who was patrolling an alley between the field and the stands. "I'm just glad it's almost over with," Aaron said after the game was stopped so he could be presented with the ball returned by Williams...