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...game ambled on through the middle and late innings until the ninth when Cincinnati fired their parting extra-base shots that insured them the championship and a 7-2 win. Bench's second homer, a three-run rip, finally spelled R.I.P. for New York...
...play in the Yankee burst was George Brett's error on Carlos May's dribbler down the third base line. But Brett more than made up for the miscue when he walloped a three run homer with Al Cowens and Jim Wohlford aboard in the top of the eighth that momentarily silenced the boisterous capacity crowd...
...symphony began in the first inning, when Fred Lynn smashed a three-run homer over the right-field bullpen, just past the spot where Williams had hit his final blast. The Reds hit a few forte notes themselves, though, and by the seventh inning they held a 6-3 lead to go with their 3-2 lead in the Series...
...Wednesday evening and Homer Marquis is an early arrival Illinois delegate. He talks about Communist control of the Democratic and Republican parties. He asks just how much I know about "that Council on Foreign Relations they got doin' all those evil things." Homer can't tell me his hometown because "those bastards will come and throw stones at my house." Questions about the identify of the 'bastards' go unanswered. "I'm saying all this to help you, young fella," he explains, gripping my shoulder and asking for my address, so as to pass along some literature about Jimmy Carter...
...dirt racing technique that requires each driver to gauge the velocity of his car against its distance from other vehicles while skidding laterally around a slick clay oval at 100 m.p.h. - up to four hurtling Chevys all fishtailing in unison. For excitement, the power slide is a grand slam homer and game-winning touchdown wrapped into one. It is this kind of action and these kind of men that draw perhaps 500,000 Southerners on a weekend to some 100 small tracks operating week after week for nine months a year. The sport defies economic logic. A late-model sports...