Word: homer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HOMER GAYNE Kingston, Jamaica
...World Series against the Yankees, Bill Mazeroski won the championship for the Pirates with a seventh-game ninth-inning homer off what New York hurler...
...third inning, the Bosox retaliated on Senators' starter Casey Cox, a former relief pitcher. Carl Yazstremski, former kingpin of the Bog Yaz Bread Company, nailed one of Cox's infamous balloon balls into the bleachers in right center field for a two-run homer. The Nats lead was neatly sliced...
...from 25 colleges, he signed with the A's for a $50,000 bonus. After leading the American Association in strikeouts, he was brought up to Oakland late last season. In his first game, Blue, one of the few switch-hitting pitchers in baseball, clouted a three-run homer to help the A's to a 7-4 win. In his second outing he hurled a one-hitter. Then in his fourth start, he stunned the slugging Minnesota Twins with a no-hitter. Asked how many victories he thinks Blue will have this season, Williams answers: "How many...
...nobility in perception, its importance determined by your awareness. What you don't see, cannot know, is shadow, darkness around and in corners, beyond horizons. We deal with unknowns in and with the terms of what we understand. Beyond his genius in removing man from sight of known shores, Homer's odyssey still had to present mysteries with realities people could understand. Whirlpools were given names to relate in sea-tales-lightning didn't just strike, he named the hand of its origin. Nothing can remain unknown entirely, magical creatures are composites of the world we know, and we turn...