Word: slams
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Farkes’ day was especially memorable. The sophomore from Boston broke Pete Varney’s 34-year-old single-season school home run record of 10—tied by three players since 1970—with an electrifying third-inning grand slam that gave Harvard a 12-2 lead...
...third inning of Game 1, a grand slam dramatically launched Farkes into the record books and past the single-season home run tally originally set by Pete Varney...
...didn’t lose the game because of a grand slam, we lost the game because when it came down to it, they got the job done,” co-captain second baseman Sara Williamson said. “We thought we had done it both games, but the Ivies are fickle and if you don’t play seven hard innings, any game can slip right between your fingers...
...slam-dunk case." GEORGE TENET, replying to the President's concerns, as quoted in Plan of Attack...
That's a scary thought. After crushing the 1997 Masters with a 12-stroke win to become, at 21, Augusta's youngest champion, Tiger went through a similar drought, going 28 months without winning a major. He followed that lag with the Tiger Slam: four straight titles, from the 2000 U.S. Open through the 2001 Masters. Like Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan before him, Tiger has blurred perspective. When only four golfers have won more majors than you have, at 28, honors like five straight Player of the Year awards are no longer good enough...