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...Babe Ruth of our high school," made it to the major leagues for 15 distinguished seasons and retired ten years ago. "At seven and eight Pete was really a little guy," recalls Brinkman, now a White Sox coach. "I'd pitch and he'd catch, and when the hitter swung and missed, Pete would stick the ball up in their face and say, 'Hey, batter, batter, batter.' " Pete was a banker's son, though his father was more famous for playing halfback with the semipro Cincinnati Bengals at the age of 42 and sparring with World Featherweight Champion Freddie Miller...
...first pitcher he faced in the big leagues, though Rose wonders yet why it was modest Earl Francis for the Pirates that opening day and not Bob Friend. "My first time up, Francis walked me on four pitches. What he didn't realize was I couldn't have swung at any of them." It was the first of 1,506 walks. "Frank Robinson followed with a homer--on the second pitch. Since Cincinnati used to open before anyone else, I scored the first run of the year." It was the first of 2,129 runs. Off Friend three games later...
...month. Its appendage, consisting of dust and charged particles, could ultimately stretch some 70 million miles beyond the comet's nucleus. To witness the extended tail and see Halley's at its most spectacular, watchers will have to wait until next March and April, after the comet has swung around the sun and is making its closest approach to the earth. There is just one catch: the best views of Halley's during its spring approach will be in the Southern Hemisphere. --By Jamie Murphy. Reported by Jon D. Hull/Los Angeles and Thomas McCarroll/New York
Adriano Jellici, mayor of the neighboring town of Tesero, was driving up the valley with his daughter. They were saved because the road at that point swung high up the hillside. "I have seen the end of the world," Jellici exclaimed. Other travelers were not so fortunate. Bank Employee Mario Deflorian spoke of his cousin Lucio Deflorian, a carpenter: "He was coming down the road in a truck with his two sons, Umberto, 18, and Clemente, 24. Right away he guessed what was happening. He yelled, 'Get out! Get out!' The two boys escaped by running into the forest...
...just got my hands in,” Klimkiewicz says, pressured to describe the at-bat. He grins. “The best hits, it doesn’t even feel like you swung hard...