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Earthquakes aside, Hollister has small claim to fame. When Babe Ruth arrogantly pointed his finger toward the outfield wall and then hit a home run to that spot against the Chicago Cubs in 1932, it was a Hollister boy, Charlie Root, who served up the pitch. Motorcyclists have long gathered amid the rolling hills outside town for rallies and roguery. Back in 1947 the bikers rumbled into Hollister and lounged around the main street until some boys from the Elks' Lodge poured beer on them from their second-floor meeting room. The infuriated bikers terrorized the town, riding their...
...baseball's most recognizable physiques. Very visible to start with because of his 6'4, 250-lb fame, he became even more conspicuous on the field with a variety of never before-seen histrionics: the sextuple pump out call, the "outoutoutoutoutout" call at first base, the smoking finger gun-downs of strike-out victims. Luciano animated baseball's mundanities, no runs, no hits, no men left could...
...passed to superiors, as Nuremburg made clear. The first buck pass was Adam to Eve to snake, who, while superior to the unhappy couple, was unable to pass the buck elsewhere. Since the snake himself once worked for a Superior, it is just as well that he had no finger to point...
...charging at me," Britz said, "I turned away but I caught my hand on the glass and he crushed it, which folded it under and caused it to break. "The break, which is of the second metacarpal--the bone that connects to the middle finger--should take four weeks to heal...
...callus on his palm and advice to young flesh-pressers on his lips: "Hit in close, deep, where they can feel it. Connect first, before they do. That's the way to make them feel the power." To a heckling crowd he showed one finger. The tough-guy style was not inconsistent with the physical man, built like a truck battery with a constant charge of direct current. Those around him learned to keep their distance. Persico describes relationships clearly signaling that one did not work for Rockefeller but served him. There were 80-hour work weeks, Sunday night...