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...were victorious in last year's against the Braves. Though hobbled since 1990 by recurrent back trouble, Mattingly came close twice. The Yankees were the AL's top team when the 1994 season was ended by the strike. And in his first playoff appearance, Mattingly batted .417 with one homer, four doubles and six RBIs in the Yankees' opening-round loss to Seattle in 1995. "He spent his whole life hoping to get into the World Series and never got there," said Joe Torre, who knows a bit about the subject. "One of the sadnesses of winning it all last...
...show, co-created by Simpsons writer Glen Daniels, came about when Peter Roth, then president of 20th Century Fox Television, approached the animator about coming up with "a Mike Judge equivalent to Homer Simpson," as part of a production deal Judge had signed with the network's parent company. "I went back to my sketchbooks," recalls Judge, who has lived in Austin, Texas, since 1993, "and I found all these bubba types. I wanted to do something about four or five guys who were really into their power tools...
...patriarch of a small family in the fictitious town of Arlen, Texas, Hank Hill--Judge's new Everyman--is the show's articulate voice and conscience. Unlike Homer, he is no bumbling dreamer but rather a man who takes earnest pride in his life as a father and propane salesman. If the Simpson family remains on a jaunty, fruitless ride to escape the banalities and inconveniences of middle-class life, the Hills--Hank, his wife Peggy and son Bobby--are a grimmer, reality-based lot, who doggedly accept the burdens of their position. The show is languidly paced and less...
...some would argue is the mother of all novels. In recounting Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War, Fagles finds a contemporary English style that beckons to the ear as well as the eye. Rewardingly for an age so often rendered in rap and heavy metal, he makes Homer sing...
...some extent, to have Homer in the book is artificial," Jenkins says...