Word: wagner
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...stop along the road when we were traveling and order a half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys, let's go... Another original Hall of Famer, Honus Wagner, "just ate the ball up with his big hands, like a scoopshovel, and when he threw it to first base you'd see pebbles and dirt and everything else flying over along with the ball the greatest shortstop ever. The greatest everything ever." This nostalgic sense of a greatness lost runs...
...Glory of Their Times is laced with splendid photographs, many taken from the player's personal collections, and others dug up by Ritter at library and newspaper archives across the country. Such illustrations as an early Coca Cola advertisement and the moving endpiece depicting John J. McGraw and Honus Wagner reveal photography at its moving best. The illustrations are worth the price of the book alone...
...century. In 1964, after an international concert career that had lasted only nine years, he abruptly retired from the stage to explore the potential of the recording studio. In more than 90 releases, ranging from two idiosyncratic versions of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations to his transcriptions of Wagner, Gould did just that. Flamboyant willfulness marked too much of his work, but at his best he had a penetrating, furiously original vision. Gould died of a stroke in 1982 at age 50, but he remains a challenging figure. Now two new books tap the mind behind the fingers. In Conversations with...
...exactly consistent four for 14 from the floor against Lehigh, 10 to 15 against Wagner--but at 6-ft. 7-in., our scout in the field rates him not bad looking...
...fiscal 1985 to buy the Army's problem-plagued Sergeant York antiaircraft gun pending further tests, and indicated that the weapon might be terminated altogether. The Army had planned to buy 618 of the guns by 1987 (estimated cost: $4.5 billion). Before a Senate subcommittee, Lieut. General Louis Wagner Jr. admitted that the gun's guidance system worked so poorly in tests that it could not get a bead on a whirring helicopter even when the chopper was standing still...