The Yankee slugger is on pace to surpass the pre-steroid homer record.
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Gang Green has been in a holding pattern since 1969
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A young boxing enthusiast, Vladimir Nabokov, writing for a Russian émigré newspaper, called the Frenchman “the wonderful Carpentier,” a “modest, fair-haired young man.”
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“Miller is one of the three most important people in the game’s history, along with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson.”
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The night Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Malcolm X, and Sam Cooke did not have a party
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“He's the best player the Mets have ever had — the best ballplayer New York has had since Mickey Mantle. But, like the Mets, he seems to have jumped from a confident future to a disappointing past without ever basking in the present. He's not having fun, and neither are we.”
Originally published October 3, 1989