Word: homers
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...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...
...CURRENTLY three-quarters of the way through Robert A. Heinlein's newest novel, I Will Fear No Evil, which is being serialized in Galaxy, and I feel somewhat as if I had sat at the feet of the blind Homer and heard him lean over to me and say, "Did you ever hear the one about the travelling salesman and the farmer's daughter...
While hunting outside the Utah town of Redmond, Homer Behunin, 49, an amateur geologist, took a shot at a large male deer. The wounded buck ran off. As Behunin followed in hot pursuit, he stumbled onto a far more important prize: the fossilized remains of a primeval palm tree that may be the oldest flowering plant ever found...