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There was plenty more for the Fenway faithful to applaud--stand-ins Bob Montgomery (behind the plate for sore-armed Carlton Fisk) and Jack Brohamer (playing third base until Butch Hobson is ready to throw again) each banged out a double and a triple. Montgomery added a single, and Brohamer turned three nifty plays at the hot corner to lift one burden off the shoulders of New England...
English Library Interiors from Thomas Bodley to Horace Walpole--A.R.A. Hobson, author of "Great Libraries," Houghton Library...
August brought a sickness. No one could be sure--maybe it was Hobson's elbow, maybe Evans's eyes. Or Lee's mouth. Or Zimmer's head. No one knew, but it soon became clear that these gods were mortal, after all, and that perhaps the Yankees--Billy Martin or no--were not. the Boomer would whiff with two men on, and all of a sudden the news became more noticeable. Weeks before Yaz's foul pop settled into Nettles's glove, the fantasy had ended, and the real world was important again...
Some radical feminists have presented women with a Hobson's choice: be a good feminist or be a good mother. The Ourselves authors see raising children as healthy and creative, rather than inhibiting. Radicals wanted women to discard their aprons and get on in the real world; Ourselves, turning this view on its head, calls on men to discard their briefcases and join the world of women, to participate in the emotional growth of raising a child. Both men and women, then, should have careers, and both should enjoy the "nurturing," or emotional fulfillment, of being a parent...
...When Hobson finally did ask to be taken out, Jack Brohamer came in and helped to mend the defense. The Red Sox went on to win nine of their last 11 games to tie the Yankees for first place...