Word: tater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open up the newspaper, and you can read the comic strip "Snuffy Smith," which features a dirty, shiftless mountaineer and his sons "Tater" and "Jughaid...
Former Dodger ace Don Drysdale says batters are seeing the beanball in abundance because of their increased cockiness. After knocking a tater, hitters no longer dutifully jog around the base paths, models of humility. Instead, they stand still, in triumph, while the pitcher slumps on the mound...
...those announcers combined for 174 round trippers--less than a quarter of Hank Aaron's all-time record of 755. Hammerin' Hank's chase of Babe Ruth was one of the most celebrated in all of sports. Aaron pounded his record-tying 714th tater on opening day, 1974. Five points if you can name the pitcher off whom Aaron connected and five more if you can name the stadium in which the momentous event took place...
Rivera's for home runs came in 79 at-bats, more than three came as many as McNamara's 25. Still, Rivera has already become one of the leading tater mashers I Harvard History with 10fgames left in the season the Utica N.Y. native has 16 career homers, just five shy of Don Allard '83's career-record...
...night before the Notre Dame game (this year's version is Sunday), you see more than 250 people stretched sleeping baging on tater-lots or passing aluminum-foil pipes from mouth to mouth. The spirt is communal, the campus police are tolerant and the Southern California weather rarely spoils the occasion...