slugger
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If anything can get someone to run home and turn on a softball game, it’s a big-time slugger from a big-time school mashing homers like nobody before.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Former Sooners slugger Jocelyn Alo, the NCAA’s career home run queen, averaged nearly 0.5 homers a game on her way to a record 122.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Garret Anderson, the often misunderstood and always lethal Angels slugger who starred in the 2002 World Series, has died of a heart attack.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The slugger beside me waggled its eyestalks, the glassy marbles taking in a 360-degree view.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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