Word: home-run
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...Another Surly Slugger Were you upset when Barry Bonds hit his 715th home run and passed Babe Ruth's career home-run total? Our Sept. 29, 1961, story on the New York Yankees' Roger Maris showed that even players who aren't accused of using steroids can rile the fans when Ruth's numbers are threatened...
Before heading to Congress, Republican J.D. Hayworth of Arizona was a sportscaster with a signature home-run call: "It's vapor!" Now the conservative Hayworth, 47, is making a similar charge about President Bush's plan to tighten the border with Mexico and establish a limited guest-worker program. He is about to publish an anti-immigration manifesto, Whatever It Takes, that should rile up right-wing radio just as the White House was hoping to gain traction for a broad immigration-reform package...
...eighth inning of Game 2, with the Crimson clinging to a 2-1 lead to sweep, junior Lance Salsgiver followed a Morgan Brown single with a perfect bunt down the third-base line, leaving both runners safe. Then, perhaps most surprisingly, Harvard’s home-run king, Farkes, laid down another picturesque bunt to get himself to first, loading the bases...
...eighth inning of Game 2, with the Crimson clinging to a 2-1 lead to sweep, junior Lance Salsgiver followed a Morgan Brown single with a perfect bunt down the third-base line, leaving both runners safe. Then, perhaps most surprisingly, Harvard’s home-run king, Farkes, laid down another picturesque bunt to get himself to first, loading the bases...
...cast McGwire as a lying cheat is grotesque. He has raised a lot of money for worthy causes, and his 1998 race with Sammy Sosa to break Roger Maris' single-season home-run record saved the sport of baseball. Whatever the outcome of the House committee hearings, McGwire will always be a hero...