Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mattingly of the Yankees has been one of the best hitters in baseball over the last couple of years. Last year, the first baseman hit .327, clubbed 30 homers and drove in 115 runs. Mattingly is a legitimate threat to win the Triple Crown--leading the league in batting average, homers and RBIs. Carl Yastrzemski of the Red Sox was the last player to win the Triple Crown in 1967. Can you name the last National Leaguer to win the Crown and the year in which he did it? (Three points for the player and two for the year.) Five...
...tricky part about winning the Triple Crown is leading the league in all three categories in the same year. There have been five players who have led their league in the three offensive areas (HRs, RBIs and B.A.) in different years, but have never won the Triple Crown. Can you name them? (Two points apiece.) Ten points...
...Mattingly is probably the best Yankee hitter since Mickey Mantle, who also won the Triple Crown in 1956. But there are differences between the two--Mattingly is a lefthanded hitter, while Mantle was a switch-hitter. Mantle holds the AL record for the most homers in a single season hit by a switch-hitter. What NL switch-hitter hit the most dingers in a single year? Five points...
...Come and Gone to Broadway last week, he had established himself as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience. His Broadway debut, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran nearly ten months and earned the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle prize. Fences won the theater's triple crown -- the 1987 Tony, Pulitzer Prize and Critics Circle award -- and is still playing, having set a record for nonmusicals by grossing $11 million its first year...
...doubts the President's pardoning power is absolute. It is, in fact, a holdover from the days of absolute monarchy. "Historically," says Robert Burns, professor at the De Paul College of Law, "it is the power of the Crown, passed down to the President." Once a Chief Executive decides to invoke it, he need not explain himself and no legal or political challenge is possible. The courts have never articulated any binding standards because there are none in the Constitution, except that the President may not pardon in an impeachment case...