Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Pete Varney's two-run homer gave Harvard a three-run fifth inning lead, but it took a good relies job by J.C. Nickens and a clutch throw by Dave Ignacio to stave off a Springfield rally in the ninth and preserve an 8-7 Crimson victory yesterday at Soldiers' Field...
...Crimson played a solid game at every position yesterday while no one player stood out as a star. In the first game, Bill Kelly hurled a two-hitter and Pete Varney delivered four RBI's with a homer and a double. Mike Thomas went three for three and scored four times in the rout...
...innerspace fiction," the book treats the stay in a psychiatric hospital of Charles Watkins, 50, a classics professor, who was picked up rambling and confused near London's Waterloo Bridge at midnight, under the impression that he had survived an odyssey as bizarre as anything out of Homer. Watkins fights to remember his visions, which involve legendary yellow beasts as well as the great white bird, and a bloody, obscene war between a species of monkeys and "rat-dogs." Doctors X and Y try to make him remember his wife, his family, his name and occupation-what they call...