Word: homerized
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...MILLION J.M.W. Turner Juliet and Her Nurse 1970 $5.5 MILLION Diego Velázquez Portrait of Juan de Pareja 1961 $2.3 MILLION Rembrandt van Rijn Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer...
...going to stay that way. Everything in life is tough.' But last week, as he has all season, Yankee Outfielder Maris knew just where to direct his sullen anger: at a baseball ... Maris sent a whistling drive soaring high into the rightfield seats. It was his 59th homer in 154 games; he had come within one heart-stopping wallop of tying baseball's most dramatic and cherished record: the 60 home runs hit by George Herman Ruth in 1927 (seven years before Maris was born). Nothing in recent baseball history has aroused such sustained excitement?or provoked such profound...
...until Manny Ramirez hit a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth, you can be sure that Boston fans would remember it as the best game of the season. Memories are dominated by their most powerful--and not their most typical--instances. Just as a glorious game-winning homer can erase our memory of 812 dull innings, the sublime moment when our 3-year-old looks up from the mess she is making with her mashed potatoes and says, "I wub you, Daddy," can erase eight hours of no, not yet, not now and stop asking. Children...
...were a little stunned,” Walsh said. “All of a sudden, we’re down.”The Tigers tacked on three more in the third on a RBI single by Salini and a two-run homer by Iacono that, as with Wendkos’, got into the wind and carried out in left field. “I thought Haviland pitched well and I thought Cole pitched well,” Walsh said. “They didn’t pitch outstanding.” Harvard, in the midst...
...through the now-driving rain into deep centerfield. The ball bounced up against the 435-foot mark on the wall as the centerfielder slipped in pursuit, and Northeastern bungled the relay throw, allowing Wilson to chug all the way around for an inside-the-park, go-ahead three-run homer. “It’s good to see the team fight back like that,” captain Morgan Brown said. “Steffan had a big hit.” For Wilson, who has been inconsistent at the plate of late and struck...