Word: home-run
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...first Blacks to break the color line and he became the most successful home-run hitter in history," said Third Harvard Marshal Ernie Minelli '95. "He did that at a time when not everyone was willing to accept him. I think he could teach us a lot about perseverance and courage and humility...
...labor squabble accomplished what the Depression, two World Wars and an earthquake couldn't: it snuffed out the World Series. The strike killed a season of white-hot pennant races and on- the-diamond superlatives (Ken Griffey Jr. and Matt Williams were making credible runs at Ruth's home-run record; Tony Gwynn aimed to join Ted Williams in the .400 club). It also proved the only stat that baseball's millionaire players and multimillionaire owners really care about is the bottom line...
Sluggers Matt Williams and Ken Griffey Jr. pause in pursuit of baseball's home-run record in order to work on their swings
...game, the baseball players' union set a strike date for Aug. 12. If players and owners are unable to agree on issues such as salary caps and arbitration, baseball will see its eighth work stoppage in 22 seasons -- and fans will lose the much discussed possibility of a new home-run record set by league leaders Ken Griffey Jr. and Matt Williams...
...BALL, STUPID. In a Costa Rican sweatshop, peons are making sure that the Rawlings baseballs they stitch together for the major leagues are wrapped tight, giving them extra flight potential and allowing the Mariners' Griffey to obliterate home-run records set by two imperialist Yankees, Babe Ruth (60 in 1927) and Roger Maris (61 in '61). Anyway, that's one conspiracy theory. Many pitchers and some batters believe the ball has been spiked, but Rawlings says its tests indicate no change. "The ball isn't juiced," says Griffey. But does he have a better idea of what's going...