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...FANS' TOP 10 MOMENTS 10. Ryan's 7th no-hitter 9. DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak 7. Ted Williams hits .406 6. Rose passes Cobb for hits 5. Gehrig's farewell speech 4. McGwire and Sosa chase Maris 3. Robinson breaks color barrier 2. Aaron passes Ruth for HRs 1. Ripken becomes Iron...
...Still, I wonder: Did anyone ever get aroused watching a Russ Meyer movie? Purely aside from the erotic challenge of appreciating gals with chests like Mark McGwire's biceps (an important consideration for lonely fellows with their hands in their pants), there was the very industry of Russ's style. I mean, his movies moved, with all that churning action, the fast cutting, the piling of deadpan comic narration upon preposterous, nay, delirious plot twists. For sure, this technique kept the men in the audience on the cinematic alert. But Meyer paid little attention to satisfying the voyeur's essential...
DIED. JACK BUCK, 77, beloved voice of baseball's St. Louis Cardinals for nearly a half-century; in St. Louis. Among the gravelly voiced Hall of Famer's most memorable calls: in 1998, when Mark McGwire tied Roger Maris' single-season record of 61 home runs, Buck exclaimed, "Flight 61, headed for planet Maris...
...some of the attention he deserved, so let's refocus: his 73 dingers for the San Francisco Giants is one of the greatest performances in baseball's long history. He also set the record for walks and slugging percentage, held by one George Herman Ruth. With Mark McGwire retired, and the great Sammy Sosa stuck in the mid-60s, this home-run record won't be broken by anyone else anytime soon...
...RETIRED. MARK MCGWIRE, 38, the American baseball slugger who enthralled fans in 1998 as he chased and then broke Roger Maris' single-season home-run record only to see Barry Bonds eclipse the mark this year; in St. Louis. McGwire, a 12-time All-Star first baseman who hit a lifetime 583 home runs, exits a remarkable 15-year career after battling tendinitis in his right knee. AWARDED. JONATHAN FRANZEN, 42, the prestigious National Book Award for his best-selling novel The Corrections, about the dysfunctional Lambert family in middle America; in New York City. Franzen came into the spotlight...