Word: sluggers
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TYLER SNYDER, Oakland A's fan who caught the ball Barry Bonds hit for his 714th home run--to tie Babe Ruth at No. 2 on the all-time list--when asked if he would give the ball to the San Francisco slugger...
Where has all your stuff gone, Joe DiMaggio? More than 1,000 items owned by the slugger, who died at 84 in 1999, are up for auction May 19-20 in New York City. Fans can see all the memorabilia, including this sampling of our favorites, here with their estimated prices, at a show near Times Square this week...
Then the injury bug hit. Brown strained a hamstring against Penn. Sparkplug Brendan Byrne tore his meniscus. Slugger Josh Klimkiewicz hurt his elbow in a collision with Brown’s Steve Daniels...
...last time I threw a serious bullpen session was when I was 12 years old, warming up for my start in the Greenwich Village Little League semifinals against the Cardinals and their feared six-foot slugger, Jonathan Trotman. I threw a complete game and got the win, probably the high point of my athletic career. In those days, I boasted an impressive array of pitches: slow and slower. I was more concerned with location, working the corners of the super-wide strike zone and making sure I didn’t walk the runny-nosed number eight hitter...
HANOVER, N.H.—Witness the power of Josh Klimkiewicz’s bat: it was a completely different game after the Harvard slugger connected on an 0-1 fastball in yesterday’s penultimate inning.Klimkiewicz, the Crimson senior first baseman, entered the batter’s box in the eighth inning of a 10-9 do-or-die thriller. He ambled into second base, after shooting Dartmouth reliever Chris Lapointe’s pitch nearly 400 feet away into the centerfield gravel, in the midst of a 23-9 Big Green embarrassment.Klimkiewicz...