Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Popular slugger Ichiro Suzuki, winner of the Pacific League batting crown, received an unusual honor: beginning this week, customers at Hyogo Bank can put their savings into an Ichiro Deposit Account that will pay 3.85% interest -- matching Suzuki's .385 average. Meanwhile, Sadaharu Oh, left, the retired Yomiuri Giants great who holds the world record for career home runs with 868 (surpassing Hank Aaron's 755), signed an estimated $10 million five-year contract to manage the fourth-place Fukuoka Daiei Hawks...
Saturday: After blasting a "sayonara," or game-winning, homer, slugger Hiromoto Okubo of the first-place Yomiuri Giants (Central League) is so overcome with emotion that he bursts into tears on reaching home plate in a 6-4 victory over the Hanshin Tigers. Tuesday: League-leading hitter Ichiro Suzuki, left, of the Orix Blue Wave (second place, Pacific League) smacks the 200th hit of his record-breaking season in a 6-5 win over the Chiba Lotte Marines. Thursday: The Tigers lose again, 4-0, as Chunichi Dragons pitcher Kuo Yuan-tzu becomes only the fifth hurler in besuboru history...
...sexual politics. We can imagine Spenser, Robert B. Parker's tough-guy hero, paging through a thriller one evening, log fire burning and six-pack of Sam Adams at the ready, when his girlfriend Susan Silverman senses trouble. She speaks: "You're looking all choked up and strange, Slugger." He explains sheepishly that he is reading a detective story. "Yes ... ?" "Well, so there's this wounded guy, and suddenly the detective whips off, um, her panty hose and makes a tourniquet to stop the bleeding." Spenser's consort, the reader supposes, suggests Agatha Christie and counseling...
...that is the real problem: the inability of the 28 club owners to control their desire to pay huge amounts to big stars. They just can't stop themselves from handing out millions for some fashionable slugger's services. Since much of this money comes from TV contracts, clubs in the biggest markets have an edge over teams like Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. You can't always buy a winner: Detroit, with the second highest payroll, is last in the American League East, while Montreal, with the second lowest, has the majors' best record. But a good team in a small...
...cracked across the face with a Louisville Slugger," he said, "you'd better hook me up to that morphine I.V., pronto...