Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score, bases loaded, two out, ninth inning, full count. Let's see what you got," barks the Red Sox' greatest slugger, Ted Williams. Cincinnati Reds Star Hurler Tom Seaver tosses a pitch, and Terrible Ted trots calmly to first base. The scene at Williams' alma mater, Hoover High School in San Diego, will air in the spring on the syndicated TV show Greatest Sports Legends, to which Seaver is playing host this year. At lunch in Manhattan to pitch the show, Williams, 59, who in his heyday earned $125,000 a year, defended today's well...
...intellectually superior. South Korea's Kim Ung-Yong, a 14-year-old prodigy who was speaking four languages and solving integral calculus problems at age four, is said to tip the mental scales at 210, worth a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. Even Yankee Slugger Reggie Jackson brags as much about his IQ (he claims a 160) as his B.A. (his 1977 batting average was a solid...
...clubhouse, the Yankees, already out of sorts, were never out of trouble. Jackson's huge salary was highly resented and even more so was his erratic play. The players treated him like an outcast. But for Martin, Jackson always posed a different kind of threat: the big slugger, he feared, might come between him and control of his players. By the middle of June what Martin had worried about had happened: the Yankee clubhouse was a shambles. Brooding and set to explode, Martin decided he must have a public showdown with Jackson to preserve his authority. "All the players...
...ongoing Story of Oh, slugger met slugger. Baseball Great Hank Aaron journeyed to Japan to congratulate the Yomiuri Giants' first baseman Sadaharu Oh, 37, for hitting his 756th home run (TIME, Sept. 12)-and topping the U.S. major league record set by Aaron himself in 1976. After a few words to the 45,000 Japanese fans in Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium, Hank, clad in mufti, slammed a ball into the leftfield bleachers while the crowd chanted: "Aaron, Aaron, Aaron!" Hammerin' Hank even toted along a special present for Oh, who has a peculiar habit of raising...
...756th career home run-one more than the American major league record set in 1976 by Hank Aaron. Declared Oh, who was promptly named first holder of a National Hero Honors Order by the government: "I have finally put down an unbearable burden." Aaron hailed the slugger's achievement, cabling that "Japan has much to be proud of." (For another broken record, see SPORT...