Word: home-run
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...saves have come in crucial situations. For instance, there was his performance in a game against the Texas Rangers in June. Summoned to the mound in the eighth inning, with the Yankees leading 3-2, Ranger runners on second and third, and no one out, Lyle intentionally walked Home-Run Threat Frank Howard, the first batter he faced. Then, with the bases loaded, he coolly struck out the next three batters on ten pitches...
Lowell's centerfielder, Mark N. Thorsrud '72, made the most spectacular defensive play of the game. Early in the game Thorsrud caught a potential home-run ball and then made the 275-foot throw to third base for the double play...
Naturally, the Bum became Mullin's favorite caricature, but his team loyalty lay with the Giants. The New York Giants of the '30s were a team of home-run hitters who preferred powering the ball out of the park to stealing bases. Mullin drew his Giant with huge feet and a pea-sized head, explaining that his intent was "to emphasize that they were slow-footed rather than slow-headed." Those latter-day miracle makers, the New York Mets, also appealed to Mullin, who portrayed their rush to the 1969 National League pennant on TIME'S cover...
...their ads and on their packages, cereal makers often picture pole vaulters or home-run hitters in order to imply that the child who breakfasts on the product will start the day bursting with vitamins and minerals. The implication is unwarranted, an expert testified last week. Robert B. Choate Jr., a former consultant on hunger to the Nixon Administration, told a Senate subcommittee that 40 out of 60 name-brand cereals "fatten but do little to prevent malnutrition...
Bazooka Pegs. There were no maybes as far as the Reds were concerned. They drafted Bench at 17 and put him right into their farm system. At Peninsula in the Carolina League, his uniform was retired after he broke the club's home-run record with 22 in 98 games. Moving up to Buffalo in 1967, he was named Minor League Player of the Year. The next season he became Cincinnati's No. 1 receiver and predicted that he would be the first catcher to win Rookie-of-the-Year honors. He did just that. Last year...