Word: homerically
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...football and basketball, say, Gale Sayers' and Elgin Baylor's full splendor may be inferred from a single move. But a rooftop homer might have sprung from anyone who ever hit a home run, or from Henry Aaron, who hit 755; and while making one swan dive in the outfield, even Tommie Agee or Ron Swoboda of the Mets is the equivalent of the Giants' Willie Mays. Baseball players plainly cannot be known at a glance. "Every player, good or bad, at one time or other has played like a Hall of Famer and a Hall of Shamer." This...
...Francis for the Pirates that opening day and not Bob Friend. "My first time up, Francis walked me on four pitches. What he didn't realize was I couldn't have swung at any of them." It was the first of 1,506 walks. "Frank Robinson followed with a homer--on the second pitch. Since Cincinnati used to open before anyone else, I scored the first run of the year." It was the first of 2,129 runs. Off Friend three games later, he collected his maiden hit, a triple, the first of 1,028 extra-base hits...
Imagining White as the Most Valuable Player was an enjoyment for a moment, but no more pleasant than the next instant listening to the Cardinal understudy turned star Tito Landrum modestly describing the latest of his outlandish heroics. Landrum's opposite-field homer in Game 4 (3-0) left St. Louis just one victory from its tenth championship in 14 World Series. A minor league drifter who once was essentially traded for himself, Landrum took over during the National League play-offs for Rookie Left Fielder Vince Coleman, stealer of 110 bases, who was gobbled up by an accidentally loosed...
...Seinfeld,” co-created “King of the Hill,” and served as co-executive producer of “The Simpsons” in its mid-90s heyday. He wrote two Halloween Specials along with the priceless “Homer Badman,” in which Simpson père is accused of sexual harassment after peeling a gummi Venus de Milo off the backside of his babysitter. After speaking on the phone with Daniels, it occurred to me that his influence may have done more to shape our generation?...
...until then, we really had been having things gift-wrapped to us,” Walsh said. “And finally, we earned one on the two-run homer...