Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Martinez then settled down long enough to have heart failure as the Orioles proceeded to strand the majority of the afternoon's 12 LOBs, but then gave some of the blame to himself when Burleson launched his fourth homer of the season to center field in the fifth to make...
...Callahan, is now 39 and makes his living in a fashion that surely would have stumped the panelists of What's My Line? He is a spellbinding spinner of stories of his own devising, the practitioner of a craft older than Homer, as old as mankind, that has largely been lost in modern times. Whether he tells about two fatuous bears who are forever pinning medals made of leaves on each other or about the voyages of Magellan, his stories captivate young and old alike. In the past twelve months, he has told his repertoire of 40 tales...
...Redmen became the first team in history to win the tournament after having lost its opening contest. Holy Cross had beaten St. John's 5-3 on catcher Rick Allen's two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning in their contest last Thursday...