Word: homering
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...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...
...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...
...Cardinals banged out three hits, thereby extending his hitting streak to 21 consecutive games (it ended two games later) and raising his batting average to .381. In Pittsburgh, Pirate Leftfielder Willie Stargell, who twice this season has hit three home runs in one game, clouted his eleventh homer to set a new record for the month of April. And in a 25-hit slugfest in Atlanta, the Braves' 25-year-old Ralph Garr and the San Francisco Giants' aging (40) Willie Mays collected four hits apiece. The barrage boosted Garr's average to a league-leading...
...small chapel in a home a fragment of fourteenth-century Scottish stained glass leaning against a window-beyond, a dry river, trees and rising hills, crucifix a carved root still part of the dry earth, a candle always on a large smooth stone, flat as a simple altar blind Homer, poet liking water and consequent seas...
...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...