Summers in the mid-70s were spent at home shooting baskets, hitting a baseball, or throwing a football, preparing for my future as a quarterback on a football team.

70年代中期的夏天，我在家里投篮、打棒球或投橄榄球，为我将来成为橄榄球队的四分卫做准备。

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When people like your CD, it's just like hitting a home run in baseball.

人们喜欢你的CD，就像在棒球里打了一个本垒打。

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Ruth has been named the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings, and his home run hitting prowess made him a larger than life figure in the "Roaring Twenties".

罗斯已经成名，通过各方面详细调查和在所有球队里，他是历史上最辉煌的棒球手，他的本垒打的打击威力使他在“咆哮的小伙” 队里创造了比他的体形更高大的形象。

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That's roughly the equivalent of going a month in baseball hitting .500.

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And as much as I was already aware of his legendary status, it really hit home the time I decided to do a piece on steroids in baseball in 2004, when the issue was just hitting the fan.

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The older Mr. Halman led a recent wave of Europeans signed to play professional baseball in the U.S. At 16, he was already built like a man and hitting deep homeruns in the Netherlands's semi-professional league.

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