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...gave up a two-run homer to Pat Tabler in the fourth. He struck out three and walked three...
...remaining Greek literature from Homer to 600 A.D. is "500 fat books," Classics scholars involved in using computers are fond of saying, and at the University of California-Irvine they have spent $6 million and 15 years trying to make that information available to all the scholarsin the nation...
...expected to hold trapped balls aloft just as if they were caught. In baseball, overt cheating -- scuffing balls, corking bats -- brings only winks, while the real appreciation is reserved for breaches in the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play. Billy Martin waited for George Brett to hit a homer before objecting to the pine tar on his bat. The old Brooklyn pitcher Clyde King used to twist his cap slightly askew in hopes that the base runner on first would think he was glancing over. King got the idea from wearing two left sneakers in basketball games so that...
...Finley published Homer's Odyssey, which won the Goodwin Prize of the American Philological Association. He has also written a family history about his parents and his years growing up in New Hampshire and Cambridge...
Boston pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd had this to say after Canseco knocked his best screwball for a homer: "He will be legendary...