Word: homers
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...current slugger has declined. Now Killebrew may settle it once and for all by knocking both records out of the park. At the end of last week he was 7 games ahead of Ruth's pace, and within striking distance of Maris. Killebrew this year is averaging one homer every 9.9 times at bat, compared with Ruth's lifetime average of 11.8. He is leading the slugging Minnesota Twins, who have lofted 177 homers in 111 games, on a pace that will almost surely make them the home-run-hittingest team in the history of baseball...
...course it is also possible to read the play as literary criticism in literary terms of the tragic tradition, and of Sophocles' Electra and Aeschylus' Eumenides in particular. Euripides packs his recognition scene with allusions to earlier versions of the same myth and to several apposite situations in Homer...
Second baseman Skip Falcone got the big hit of the inning, a three run homer to left. The Crimson scattered 11 hits throughout the game. Shortstop Tom Bilodeau, pitcher Paul Del Rossi and right fielder Mike Patrick each went two for four as every Crimson player except outfielder George Neville hit safely at least once...
Among the 800 items, there are first editions of Homer, Aristotle, Petrarch, The Faerie Queene, Don Quixote, Divine Comedy, Alice in Wonderland, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, just to mention a few. It took Chicago Lawyer Louis Silver a lifetime to compile his rare-book collection, and by the time he died last October at 61, he had spent $1,500,000. Now it belongs to Chicago's private Newberry Library, which shelled out $2,750,000 to get it from his estate. That upsets the rare-book-hungry University of Texas, which had agreed...
...California's Claremont Colleges, spring-fevered delegates came within a whisker of nominating Bishop Homer Aubrey Tomlinson of the Theocratic Party as the Republican candidate, cooled off by the second ballot and picked Scranton, with Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield for Vice President...