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...religious leaders either, because once the students have fulfilled their legal attendance requirement for a particular day, they are free to do whatever they wish--and religious learning is usually low on their list of preferred after-noon activities. Even if parents order their children to forsake the Louisville slugger or the pool cue, there is no defense against the time-honored tradition of hooky...
Long-distance softball slugger Irv Grossman drove in seven runs--half his team's total--pasting two homers while doing so. But inability to contain opponents' attacks plagued the Puritans again. Brilliant relief pitching by John Ramser was needed to preserve the victory, clinched by a seven-run Winthrop uprising in the seventh...
Post-Operative Fee. In Cleveland, three years after getting punched in the nose during a street brawl, Steve Senich finally caught up with his slugger, handed him $10 because the blow had cured Senich of an old breathing disorder...
Hitless in the first three games, Joe talked his troubles over with Old Slugger Lefty O'Doul. O'Doul told Joe that he was taking his eye off the ball and swinging high. Joe changed his stance, and the Yankees began to roll. In the fourth game, DiMaggio exploded with a single and a homer. In the fifth, he connected for two singles, setting the stage for Rookie Infielder Gil McDougald's grand-slam homer, and smacked a two-run double that completed the worst World Series rout in 15 years...
...most popular. For one thing, even at a time when such a club-fighting brawler as Rocky Graziano was drawing $100,000 gates, Robinson had trouble lining up opponents good enough, or foolish enough, to step into the same ring with him. For another, U.S. crowds, always preferring a slugger to a boxer, were almost bored by his cold, businesslike perfection in the ring. "I'm a boxer," says Robinson, "not a fighter...