Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughter," muses the hero, "and Van's my son and Laura's their mother so loving them is easy. So I love everybody else, too. I love the dead, I love them especially. But not so much as I love the unborn." And most wondrous of all, not so much as he loves "the unborn who are never going to be born." But how about the reader who's never going to read it? He'll take more love than even Saroyan...
...Points Ahead. At 33, and in his 14th season with the San Francisco (ex-New York) Giants, Wondrous Willie is hitting like every lick is his last. So far this year, he has hit safely in 24 of his first 27 games, including a 20-game streak, and leads the National League in just about everything: hits (46), home runs (14), runs scored (29), runs batted in (35). His average for 109 trips to the plate: .422, 80 points ahead of Williams at the same stage of the 1941 season...
...Wondrous Willie, the statisticians figure, it would be especially hard. To get back down to .300, he has to goof up his next 44 trips to the plate...
...popular gag of the wondrous jet age is "Breakfast in Berlin, lunch in London, dinner in Detroit-and baggage in Bombay...
...Francisco's wondrous Willie Mays, the game's highest-paid player (at $105,000), seemed to be bucking for a raise. In nine games, Mays hit seven home runs - which put him (let's see now) 15 games ahead of Babe Ruth's pace...