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...YORK--An 85-year-old Honus Wagner baseball card went for $222,500 at auction yesterday, while the ball Mark McGwire hit for his 50th home run earned a whopping $46,000 for the New York Mets fan who caught it last August...
...Mark McGwire's record setting 62nd home run traveled 341 feet." Where would you probably find this statement? On The Crimson's sports pages? In The Guinness Book of Records? How about in a problem set for a Science-A Core class...
Most students would agree that associating physics with baseball is an easy way to make learning a bit more fun. But harmless as this may seem, these cultural references discriminate. McGwire and baseball are not a part of everybody's life. In fact, there are students who have never heard of McGwire or a home run. They are called "first-year international students...
...time. While most good teams have three solid starting pitchers and a rotating journeyman, the Yankees had six great starters: David Wells, David Cone, Andy Pettitte, Orlando Hernandez, Hideki Irabu and Ramiro Mendoza. Their bench could have beaten other teams. The Yankees, in contrast to the attention-grabbing McGwire-Sosa home run race, got wins and bad Nielsen ratings by playing "small ball": by massaging the first run over the plate, and then another and another. Batters patiently waited for hittable balls and forced pitchers deep into the count. Coaches stressed on-base percentage over home runs. Everyone played crisp...
...just tell Timmy that baseball, for once, showed people how to live. While America's leaders disgusted them and the economy frightened them, they got a wholesome epic. McGwire and Sosa congenially ribbed each other into amassing 136 home runs while Cal Ripken ended his fantastically mundane consecutive game streak by silently slipping away because it was time to let someone new have a turn. And the Yankees played hard, worked together and won a lot of ball games. We got everything we wished We hope, when you tell this story, America won't need baseball as badly...