Word: home-run
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...season, the Tigers win a game or two, and their famously demented fans predict total victory. Then, very soon, their outfielders start dropping flies, their infielders fling routine ground balls in the general direction of Mount Fuji and three Tigers runners simultaneously arrive, bewildered, at the same base. Their home-run hitter goes off to join the Detroit Tigers. Their arch-rivals, the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo, claim the pennant. And the Tigers fans, like Japan's perennially beleaguered politicians and CEOs, promise domination next year...
...baseball. His upward swing and the short right-field fence in Yankee Stadium--the House That Ruth Built, which opened in 1923--would lead the 1927 Yanks to the pennant. At the end of the season, on a 1-1 pitch against Washington's Tom Zachary, he set a home-run record that would stand for 34 years. BABE SMACKS SIXTIETH CIRCUIT SWAT, read one headline. The World Series against Pittsburgh would be a mere formality. Babe 4, Bucs...
Despite a two-run bomb from sophomore Ian Wallace and a solo shot from Klimkiewicz, the Crimson lost the home-run hitting contest, 3-2, and the game...
...also a talented athlete—he placed on Princeton’s varsity football team as a first-year before deciding to focus on academics—and is remembered as a home-run baseball player and an avid sailor. The Rawls family vacations often involved skiing, mountain climbing or backpacking...
DIED. NELSON ("THE ADMIRAL") BARRERA, 44, career home-run champion and one of the great figures in Mexican baseball, electrocuted while trying to extricate metal roofing that had become entangled with power lines atop his home; in Campeche, Mexico. In a 26-year career in the Mexican Baseball League, Barrera hit 455 home runs...