But when or if it is learned that this black man is Hank Aaron, baseball slugger, the mood changes.
At 6 feet 5 inches and 225 pounds, Lindros draws attention and stirs passions in the manner of Jose Canseco, the baseball slugger.
The stamp is one of a block of four honoring baseball sluggers, the others being Mickey Mantle, Hank Greenberg, and Mel Ott.
Like a baseball slugger in a hitting slump, Hoquiam's leaders were told they could get what they want by first "visualizing" the goal.
A lawyer for Darryl Strawberry said in a published report that the baseball slugger will be indicted today on Federal tax charges.
If a baseball slugger has taken steroids, why not at least say so?
To go on trial: The baseball slugger Barry Bonds, accused of perjury for telling a grand jury more than seven years ago that he never knowingly used steroids.
His role model for tenacity, the baseball slugger Hank Greenberg, occupies wall space right below his antihero, Mr. Castro.
WHEN professional chefs shop for kitchen equipment, they go about the task with the single-mindedness of a baseball slugger choosing his bat.
He was a beefy man, probably two hundred forty pounds or more, and reminded me of retired baseball sluggers like Ted Klusewski and Ralph Kiner.