Word: homers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...climactic scene is a game for the Frizzball Championship of the World--which is, by chance, what we called all our games. The batter resembles me. The pitch is a slice ball. I hit it to the second garbage can--a 7.3-run homer. The game is won. I glance up to see my wife in the stands (well, all right, the backyard). She has been caught up in the excitement of the game. She is cheering wildly...
...gone stone cold. And then on July 11, George Nordmann, 71, owner of the Better Way health-food store in downtown Andrews, only about 10 miles from Murphy, confessed to a Macon County sheriff's deputy that Rudolph had come to his house asking for food four days before. "Homer, you're not going to believe this," deputy Kenny Cope told his boss, Sheriff Homer Holbrooks, "but I've got a man at the house who had contact with Eric Rudolph." "You're sh______ me," Holbrooks retorted. The deputy insisted it was no joke...
McGwire, 34, is the only player in history to rack up 400 home runs in fewer at bats than Ruth. And the home runs are just as big--at well over 500 ft., several ought to count as a homer and a double. His blasts are cathartic in their destruction, and the damage is sanctified giddily: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sign he cracked with a 545-ft. homer at Busch Stadium proudly wears a giant Band-Aid, and a replacement front-porch handrail outside Wrigley Field goes unpainted to commemorate a stadium-clearing batting practice shot...
SAMMY SOSA Hits 19th homer this month and slugs 61-year-old record...
...medium-lifes--surely the densest, funniest supporting cast since the '40s farces of Preston Sturges. The church, school and pub are places of refuge and anxiety. But home, 742 North Evergreen Terrace, is where the show's heart is, where everyone's despair is muted by familial love. Homer (whom the writers hold in a sort of amazed contempt) bumbles into some egregious fix. Marge fusses and copes. Lisa sublimates her rancor by playing her sax. And Bart is...Bart...