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When Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home-run record in 1961, commissioner Ford Frick ruled that because Maris' season was eight games longer than Ruth's had been, the new record deserved an asterisk. Today fans wonder whether the slugging records of recent years will require similar caveats because of charges that top players have used anabolic steroids to help them turn fly balls into moon shots...
Teretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse, who gave $1,000 to the Bush campaign, is one of the Bush donors from Harvard. There are fewer than 15 Bush contributors at Harvard...
...kind of consistency that has come to define her career. Among history’s overlooked heroes, perhaps there is a better analogy to be drawn. One thinks of the “Iron Horse” Lou Gehrig, who toiled for many years in the shadow of Babe Ruth before leaving his own indelible mark in the game by setting a consecutive games played streak that wouldn’t be broken for nearly half a century...
...Ruth Hiller told an audience of almost 50 people in the Science Center that the Army’s central and unquestioned role in Israel creates anxiety...
...There are definitely some players to watch that have potential to be all-Americans,” O’Connor said. “Cardwell Potts and Lauren Schubert. They love to be a force in A-division whenever they sail. And Vince [Porter] and [Ruth] Schlitz—we’re looking at them to take it to another level this spring...