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...control of the fight that he turned the tables on Duran and became the taunter. He windmilled his left arm until Duran was mesmerized, then tagged him with his right-a classic sucker punch. Leonard dropped his arms and leaned forward to stick his face out, daring the hardest slugger in the game to hit him. Duran tried, but too many of his punches fell short. Said Leonard: "I saw him slowing down. I noticed his pace change. I looked in his face and I saw the change. The sneer was gone." Still, Ray Arcel, 81, Duran's cornerman...
...Friday night was quiet. Fifty thousand fans filed out of Olympic Stadium, victims of a one-man wrecking crew named Mike Schmidt. The Philadelphia slugger had knocked home both runs of a 2-1 victory, one with a sacrifice fly and one with a homer. Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw, an erratic, lefthanded screwballer who had singlehandedly willed the New York Mets to the National League pennant in 1973, came on to strike out five men in relief, and suddenly the Expos were one game en arriere and one game away from elimination...
...there when Ali would hold his arms horizontally across his face and lean back to avoid Holmes's blows. Even Joe Frazier entered Ali when, for a very strange few minutes, Muhammad bent at the waist and bobbed and weaved as if he were a left-hook-throwing slugger...
There she stands, proud, solid, white. The shining home of the Bronx Bombers looks like a baseball stadium, a palace of horsehide and oak, not a warehouse hidden between dilapidated storefronts and a disco. We even have a five-story Louisville Slugger out in front. Try to top that, whydoncha...
Through it all, there was Stargell. He knocked home four runs in the Pirates' decisive three-game streak, and in the final contest hit a single, two doubles and the towering two-run homer that guaranteed the champagne. When it was over, the slugger who has hit 464 home runs in his 18-year major league career considered his moment and deemed another day happier still. "When I signed with the Pirates in 1959," said Pops, the man who still plays ball for fun two decades later, "they gave me a $1,500 bonus and $175 a month...