Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter, too, has his locker-room luminaries-like Tommy Nobis of the Atlanta Falcons and Homer Hero Henry Aaron. When Jimmy's Atlanta staff phoned to recruit Boston Red Sox Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, however, their pitch went awry. Yaz said he was pretty busy with the Massachusetts campaign of Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, a leading candidate for Speaker of the House. "Is he a Republican or a Democrat?" asked the Carter scout in Atlanta. "Democrat," replied an incredulous Yaz. "Well, tell him he'd better get on the Carter bandwagon," said the staffer. "In Boston," snapped Yastrzemski...
...last year that now makes Farnham Public Enemy Number One among Ivy League defenses. Opponents' secondaries have come to regard the senior end as some sort of reincarnated Homer Jones, regularly double and triple-teaming him throughout the game...
...game ambled on through the middle and late innings until the ninth when Cincinnati fired their parting extra-base shots that insured them the championship and a 7-2 win. Bench's second homer, a three-run rip, finally spelled R.I.P. for New York...
...play in the Yankee burst was George Brett's error on Carlos May's dribbler down the third base line. But Brett more than made up for the miscue when he walloped a three run homer with Al Cowens and Jim Wohlford aboard in the top of the eighth that momentarily silenced the boisterous capacity crowd...
...symphony began in the first inning, when Fred Lynn smashed a three-run homer over the right-field bullpen, just past the spot where Williams had hit his final blast. The Reds hit a few forte notes themselves, though, and by the seventh inning they held a 6-3 lead to go with their 3-2 lead in the Series...