Word: homering
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...play ended a wild evening in Tiger Stadium which began with more heroics from ageless Carl Yastrzemski. The captain had a stellar night Tuesday driving in five of the Sox's eight runs, three coming off a first-inning homer...
...Carlton Fisk sacrifice fly, a solo roundtripper off Dwight Evans's bat, and a two-run ICBM homer from Fred Lynn put Boston in the driver's seat with a 4-3 lead through the top of the eighth...
...indescribable Yastrzemski seemed to be saying "yes" when he popped a ninth-inning homer, his 14th of the year, to close the scoring for the game; but the memory of the "pinstriped plague" that devasted Boston has to sour sweet old Fenway's pennant dreams...
FMCA held its Grand National Rally last week at the Minnehaha County fairgrounds outside Sioux Falls, S. Dak. The motor homer's odyssey was officially dubbed the Great Plains Buffalo Roadeo, a name explicable only because 1) a sizable surviving herd of buffalo can be visited a few miles away (it had few visitors), and 2) there was an authentic rodeo for the road runners. The rally attracted some 7,500 people and 2,078 motor coaches, many bearing names such as It's a No Bus, Jackass Flats, Big Debt, Stick It Inn and Daddy...
...want to any longer, and so he is gone. I think he did the right thing for himself, if not for the Yanks. As for George, well, it is true that his dollars brought the Yankees back into contention. But now I would trade the great moments--Chambliss's homer to beat the Royals in '76, the fantastic ninth inning against the Royals to come form behind and move into the Series last year--for simple peace of mind. I wish now that Steinbrenner had bought the Cleveland Indians, as he had originally intended. I wish he had stocked...