Word: home-run
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...despite the Eagles' power-hitting connection--featuring five solo taters--Harvard remained in the ballgame until the eighth inning, when Crimson relief pitcher Doug Sutton fell victim to a fatal home-run swat...
From the age of eight, Gooden and his closest neighborhood friend, Floyd Youmans, filled Tampa's afternoons with pepper. Using a battered aluminum can for a ball, they waged endless rounds of home-run derby or argued themselves angry over a game called Strikeout that featured a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. "Just me and him," Youmans whispers conspiratorially. "We weren't supposed to--the coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew...
...right and 1-2 as a leadoff hitter. It also rates each player in the league number of categories and you learn that Argens Salazar was 134th and last in the National League in batting average (including a several .089 during the day), slugging average, on-base percentage and home-run percentage: that he was second to last in walk percentage and seventh from the bottom in strikeout percentage...
...Caprio's first chance at a home-run trot. "In high school we didn't have a fence," the freshman explained. "We had to run it out. It felt good just to jog it." Crimson 15, Eagles 0 HARVARD ab r h bi Kay 2b 5 1 3 1 Andre 2b 1 0 0 0 McAndws rf 5 2 1 0 Caprio rf 1 1 1 1 DePalo c 4 3 2 0 Rivera 1b 5 2 3 2 Maspns dh 6 2 2 3 DiCsare ss 4 2 2 0 Vierra lf 4 0 1 0 McNmara...
...tried to demonstrate that capitalism, freedom, and art are related and, in fact, inseparable. I thought that a home-run hit by Babe Ruth was, in some sense, comparable to The Waste Land, the revolutionary and explosive poem published in 1922 by T.S. Eliot...Cash, of course, made possible the revolution in technology, industry, and, I argued, art. I suggested that Marxism is a reactionary ideology, a fearful revolt against man's natural desire for freedom and the almost limitless possibilities presented to be who has money...