Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baseball sluggers have always had memorable nicknames. From the Bambino to Kong, fans shave always appreciated the powerful skills of these free swinging players. Home Run Baker of the Philadelphia A's was the first player to have the round-tripper accredited to his name. What was the greatest number of homers the Philly slugger ever banged out in a single season...
...sluggers in the National League. Many remember his monstrous homer two years ago in St. Louis off of John Tudor in extra innings to keep the Mets in the Pennant race. Or his homer in Game Seven of the 1986 World Series? Last year, Strawberry had 27 regular-season round-trippers and finished third in homerun ratio (he had 5.68 homeruns for every 100 at bats). The Phillips's Mike Schmidt finished, but can you name the other slugger who topped Strawberry's mark...
...effort is underway in Cambridge to set up a year-round shelter for the local homeless population to pick up the slack after three seasonal shelters close at the end of this month, officials announced at last night's City Council meeting...
...mace, thinks Nunn could pull off a variation of the turn-to scenarios. He could announce later this year that his tasks as Armed Services Committee chairman prevent relentless campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire, but that he will launch a national candidacy in time for the Southern round of primaries on March 8. This could succeed, Strauss speculates, because the earliest contests might yield a "dog's dinner result" -- a lot of scraps and leftovers -- for the present pack. If so, a Nunn or a Cuomo could defy conventional wisdom by waiting until after that round to leap...
...control of much of its property. At stake are 325,000 acres of farmland that the government wants for state-run collective farms. While church leaders have vowed to fight the legislation in the courts if necessary, some observers say the stage is now set for a second round of bargaining that could end in a face-saving compromise acceptable to both sides...