Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mark McGwire's unexpected triumphs last week was exposing the intricacies of the gift tax. The guy who grabbed Big Mac's 62nd home-run ball won't be saddled with a tax bill for returning it to the slugger, but you might not want to be so generous with your friends. Once a gift giver surpasses a $625,000 lifetime limit (part of his estate-tax exemption), he'll have to pay taxes each year on any gifts he hands out that are worth more than...
...haven't changed. Correct! Now about that password... Harvard Dining Services Bag lunches in Loker: a long overdue yet stunning success. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches remind us of home. Sammy Sosa With less fanfare but more emotion--and lifting his team to a wild-card berth--the Cubs' slugger pulls even with McGwire...
...PEDRO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic--This is where the fantasy begins, the town that produced so many major leaguers. And for local kids with a glove and a bat, inspiration comes nightly on TV as they watch one of their own slugger Sammy Sosa...
Mark McGwire on Tuesday night hit his 63rd four-bagger to regain sole possession of the single-season home run record. The St. Louis Cardinal broke out of a tie with Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa when he hit a 385-foot drive to left center off the Pittsburgh Pirates' Jason Christiansen. (The Pirates won the first game of the doubleheader, 8-6.) McGwire had been in a 3-for-18 slump with three singles since hitting his 62nd home run on Sept. 8 to break Roger Maris's 37-year-old record...
Crying as he sat in the dugout after his triumphant tour around the bases, Sosa came out for three emotional curtain calls as fans littered the field while standing and chanting "Sam-mee! Sam-mee!" The delay lasted six minutes. Said the slugger: "I have to say what I did is for the people of Chicago, for America, for my mother, for my wife, my kids and the people I have around me. My team. It was an emotional moment...