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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What You Can Do for Baseball." Apparently, Frank Thomas of the White Sox wasn't listening. The slugging first baseman left the All-Star Game after the fourth inning to catch a plane back to Chicago for a game the next night. Granted, he hit a two-run homer in the fourth, but the AL could still have used his bat, and besides, many players who had games the next day stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO SPEAK FLUENT BASEBALL | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

Finley, who taught at Harvard for 43 years, joined the faculty in 1933. his most popular course, humanities 103, titled "The Great Age of Athens," focused on the works of Homer, Plato and Aristotle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finley, Former Eliot Master, Classics Professor, Dies at 91 | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

Count on it to keep coming back. The violent and raunchy streak in civilization runs deep and long into the past. More teenage boys might be attracted to the classics if they knew about Homer's graphic descriptions of spear points ripping through flesh in The Iliad or the quarts of stage blood needed for any production of Titus Andronicus. As for sex, the lewd posturings in some paintings of Hieronymous Bosch would be rated NC-17 if they showed up at the multiplex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOB DOLE'S VIOLENT REACTION | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

Counter says that knowing Aaron made watchinghim hit the record-breaking 715th homer all themore special...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Aaron: Icon of Perseverance | 6/7/1995 | See Source »

Doble again slammed a homer, going 1-4 with an RBI and two runs scored. Bernhard also played another fine game, notching two hits, with an RBI and run scored, in four at bats...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Baseball Swept Away in Four Games Against Dartmouth | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

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