Word: pipestem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball fans it is a great moment in history-like the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock or King John's signing the Magna Carta. There stands Babe Ruth with two strikes on him, gorilla-chested, monkey-faced, pipestem-legged, pointing imperiously to deep centerfield. It is the 1932 World Series against Chicago in Wrigley Field, and when Cub Pitcher Charlie Root fires the ball, the Babe hits a vast home run to the very spot, winning the ball game. Unfortunately, things did not happen quite that way. But, as Robert Creamer demonstrates again and again in this book...