Word: sluggers
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...Slugger Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki had a surprise in store for those who thought Japan's seven-time Batting Champion might not cut the mustard in the big leagues. Voted American League Rookie of the Year and MVP, Suzuki wowed U.S. baseball fans with a .350 batting average and charm, including a right-on imitation of Mariners radio broadcaster Dave Niehaus...
RETIRING. MARK MCGWIRE, 38, St. Louis Cardinals slugger who was first to hit 70 homers in a season, beating Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61. His record stood until this year, when Barry Bonds hit 73. An injured, frustrated McGwire told reporters he was no longer able to perform "at a level equal to what [the Cardinals] would be paying...
...RETIRED. MARK MCGWIRE, 38, the American baseball slugger who enthralled fans in 1998 as he chased and then broke Roger Maris' single-season home-run record only to see Barry Bonds eclipse the mark this year; in St. Louis. McGwire, a 12-time All-Star first baseman who hit a lifetime 583 home runs, exits a remarkable 15-year career after battling tendinitis in his right knee. AWARDED. JONATHAN FRANZEN, 42, the prestigious National Book Award for his best-selling novel The Corrections, about the dysfunctional Lambert family in middle America; in New York City. Franzen came into the spotlight...
...BARRY BONDS was excited about the personal race he was in, he kept it as low key as possible, putting the individual quest for history in second place to his team's struggle to get into the play-offs. And on Friday night, the San Francisco Giant slugger did his part, hitting not one but two home runs during the longest nine-inning game in major league baseball history (4 hr. 27 min.). The first of those blasts (photograph above) broke the record of 70 set to much fanfare just three years ago by the Cardinals' Mark McGwire. Bonds...
...Rhodes says he isn't distracted by the home run derby on the other side of the Pacific, where San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds is chasing Mark McGwire's single-season mark of 70, set three years ago. "I don't get too caught up in American baseball, because it's tough enough to be away from my country," Rhodes says. "But Bonds, well ... I can't imagine the pressure on him." Rhodes isn't used to that kind of attention. The 33-year-old leftfielder didn't quite make it in the U.S. major leagues, bouncing around among...