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...year ago Robin faced Teresa in an arm-wrestling match in Atlanta. Teresa's slam dislocated Robin's shoulder. "It's all in the technique," Teresa says, fluttering her lashes...
...shakes his head. He lost his first match to Ray Taglione, and he can't understand it. He is more muscular than Ray, who is slightly built. It is not uncommon, however, to see a thin-armed man slam down a hulking, muscular arm in a split second. "He had some trick," says Joe. "He knew this thing with his hand." When Joe won his second match in this double-elimination event, his friends leaped out of their seats and cheered. Joe put his head down, embarrassed, and joined his wife in a far corner of the room...
Like a priest giving a blessing, the skinny referee cups both his hands over the two arm wrestlers' locked hands. "Ready!" he says. Ray and Joe tense up. "Go!" the referee says. The audience erupts into shouts and cheers -- "Pull him! Pull him! Slam him! Slam him!" -- as Ray Taglione, a stockbroker, and Joe Elmizadeh, a garage mechanic, pour every bit of strength in their bodies into their clasped hands...
...Drysdale Dodgers were supposed to sweep the Baltimore Orioles, but they got swept instead, with Moe striking out six in a row. This year first the Cardinals were expected to overwhelm the Twins, then the Twins were poised to obliterate the Cardinals. The reverse happened in turn. A grand-slam homer from a lead-off hitter like Minnesota's Gladden qualifies as a marvel, but the home run later hit by Lawless was a miracle...
...Viking Super Bowls in between, the hanky-waving citizenry has been desperate to be known as a winner and to lead the way. Behind 5-2 in the sixth game, they thought about despairing again, until old Don Baylor hit a two-run homer, and Hrbek a grand slam. No team had ever won all four home games in a World Series, but by a score of 11-5 and a grace as big as all indoors, the Twins won the right to try. Meanwhile, back in St. Louis, the headline writers stood by wondering which it would be -- THIS...