Word: homering
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Ruth used the home run to transform baseball. In the process, he made the homer a part of American culture, a symbol of the country's affection for the fast, decisive stroke that can determine the outcome of a contest. Aaron, Ruth's heir if not his rival, has kept that drama alive. Baseball may no longer be the national pastime. But when a slugger steps into the box to face a good pitcher, it is man-to-man combat, and the possibility of a home run still carries excitement. With Aaron, year in and year...
...nowhere near being pennant contenders and because an Aaron home run is a common occurrence in a stadium that the players call "the launching pad." Nonetheless, the Braves and the city fathers are beating the promotional drums. Giant billboards have been erected to give Aaron's latest homer total. A street and school will be renamed for Aaron. Cash rewards for returning Aaron home-run balls have attracted loyal bands of fans equipped with everything from catchers' mitts to lacrosse sticks and huge nets attached to fishing poles. "Of course, I'd like...
...just four seasons after his Red Sox had won the American League pennant with a team total of 13 home runs, he smashed the single-season homer record with the then astronomical figure of 29. That was only the beginning. The following season, his first as a Yankee, he clouted 54. The runnerup, George Sisler, had 19. In fact, Ruth's home-run record that year was greater than the team total of 14 of the 15 other major-league clubs. Yankee attendance ballooned to nearly 1.3 million, from 619,000 the previous year. The crowds came to watch...
...Japanese when I needed a baseball way of talking." So he has adopted a kind of baseball interlingua. It was not too difficult, for many of Japan's basic terms are taken straight from Abner Doubleday's lexicon: an out is outo, a hit is hitto, a homer is homma and a batter is a batta. Blasin game also mastered such words as massugu (straight), tsuyoku (strongly), yukkuri (slowly) and a lot of what might be called body Japanese. "A tiny gesture from Breiza," explains Hawk Out fielder Shuzo Aono, "and we more or less know what...
Loren Eiseley, LL.D., anthropologist. Matina S. Homer, LL.D., educator. [Her research] has fostered a growing new awareness that the motivation and achievement of intellectually gifted women can be affected, favorably or adversely, by the social setting...