Word: homer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blunt Bill Veeck told me how things are, during a layover in Chicago. Richie Zisk, an unsigned White Sox, hit two home runs in an important game, and I remarked that with each homer, Zisk was getting more expensive...
...Yazoo Motel was taken over en bloc by the White House, with the mystically regarded communications equipment quartered there. In Stubb's restaurant next door. Sheriff Homer Hood showed up in a suit and tie for the first time in recent memory, and at lunches there was an amalgam of reporters, cameramen, White House people, Secret Service and old country boys from the seed stores, feed stores and sawmills, who seemed to wish to preserve an integrity of disinterest but shamed themselves with sneaky over-the-shoulder glances at the outlanders. People watched the national TV news every night...
...Boston Museum of Fine Art is one of the country's largest art museums and a must for any student of Impressionism. The MFA currently has several special exhibitions easily worth a quick ride down the green line. More than 100 of 19th century American artist Winslow Homer's works are on display until Sept. 4. The comprehensive show covers almost every stage of the artist's career including his early lithographs, his Civil War drawings and, of course, his seacoast watercolors. Complementing the Homer exhibition is "Watercolor in 19th Century Europe," a selection of watercolors by Homer's European...
...unavailable as a result of a virtual coach's nightmare; he lost concentration while playing catch, and the ball shattered his nose. But no one could take up the slack better than the nation's number one RBI man (87), second baseman Bob Horner, who also tied the NCAA homer mark with 22 round trippers...
...Devils had whipped Clemson, the ACC Champions and the only other team repeating a 1976 trip to Omaha, 10-7, largely on the efforts of freshman third baseman Jamie Allen. Allen smashed a homer and two singles and then pitched the Sun Devils out of a ninth-inning jam, earning a save to boot...