Word: stats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to explain McGwire's influence on me while I was growing up. You need to step into the mind of a young boy who poured over the sports section every morning, checking the box scores for McGwire's stat line and who became disappointed to find the words "late game" most of the time...
...time, in the year of Lucky Lindy and The Jazz Singer, a giant named Babe hit 60 homers. Decades later, decades ago, in J.F.K.'s first year as President, a man named Roger Maris spanked 61. Great hitters emerged before and since, but hardly anyone challenged the sacred stat...
Hold it! Hold it! McGwire and Sosa both went yard! I need a pretentious sports essayist stat...
...might play a lousy employee, but she plays a great human being. And George Clooney is, well, George Clooney, but, instead of choosing the easy way out and smirking through the film to make women swoon, he turns in as nicely nuanced a performance as his role allows. Stat...
...Brother Bill keeps only one stat: souls saved. And he tries to save them with one small act of kindness at a time. When a rusty green Ford sedan pulls up, he senses that Dee has become distracted. A customer has arrived. Dee hugs Brother Bill and walks off. Then he turns around and yells back, "Yo, I need a ride to the courthouse Monday. Can you gimme a lift...