Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literary welcome offered Segal in France was just the opposite. There he is "the new J. D. Sallinger," and he has risen to a plateau just below one of Homer's Greek gods...
Have trouble sleeping? Suffer from the predawn blahs-wakefulness and worries at 4 a.m.? Some people take refuge in sleeping pills, or another nightcap. Not me. I simply thrust the unpleasant thoughts from my mind and demidoze about great men and greater deeds. I think about Homer Jones, 220 lbs. of black thunderbolt streaking at a rate of 9.3 sec. per 100 yds. down a football field. Or about Dick Butkus, that splendid savage of a middle linebacker, actually biting an opponent's nose during a pileup. Or about four massive linemen in purple shirts named Eller, Page, Larsen...
...sometimes called the Babe Ruth of hockey. Now, the story comes to mind of Ruth hitting a homer specially for a sick little boy. It's a commonly told story, for the public loves to create myths about its sports heroes. Somehow these stories get tied up with the Biblical healing myths, and people seem to unconsciously expect something magical from their heroes...
...eighth-inning, three-run homer vaulted the Reds to a come-from-behind 6-5 victory yesterday, spoiling Oriole hopes for a four-game series...
Once again Brooks Robinson was the Baltimore hitting star, collecting three singles and his second series homer in four at-bats...