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Many of you just glanced at the boxscore, some others would have read enough to see the highlights (Pete Alber's grand slam, Jason Keck's two-run homer, Aaron Kessler 4-for-6, etc. etc.). Even fewer would have gotten as far as understanding how long it took for the Crimson to effectively 'put the game away...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: The Faces Behind the Box | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

...didn't want to leave any doubt," said captain Peter Albers, whose second-inning grand slam put the game out of reach. "From the first inning we wanted to show the other team that they shouldn't even be in the ballgame...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Mind Games | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...junior southpaw cranked the first pitch twenty feet over the right field fence for a grand slam to give the Crimson a 10-3 lead...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Baseball Blasts Big Green Machine | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...options last year. (An option gives the holder the right to buy stock at a preset price within a specific period of time, regardless of what happens in the market.) You don't need to take off your socks to figure that a stock gain of merely $1--a slam dunk for any company that is not soundly asleep--mints an instant $1 million for each of those CEOs. That's pay for showing up, not pay for performance. A growing number of CEOs get so-called megagrants, which are grants of stock options valued at more than three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW CEO PAY GOT AWAY | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...game of golf. In the American history of the sport, there have been four popular bookmarks: Francis Ouimet, the 20-year-old amateur who defeated British greats Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff for the 1913 U.S. Open in Brookline, Massachusetts; Bobby Jones, whose 1930 Grand Slam earned him a ticker-tape parade in New York City; Palmer, who teamed with television to bring golf millions of new fans; and Woods, whose galleries are not only larger than anyone else's but considerably younger and more variegated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KINGS OF SWING | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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