Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.
From Bill Dedman
One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.
In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, South and West.
Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.
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