11.   Fans gave him a thunderous ovation, cheering even louder than they did for hometown hero Henry Aaron.

12.   For the longest time, Shannon Reeves wanted to follow in the footsteps of his hometown baseball hero, Joe Morgan.

13.   For this, in the papers, on talk radio, all across this city, he will be deified, hailed again as a hometown hero.

14.   He may get one in Chicago, where hometown hero Hawkins figures to start ahead of Cotton at shooting guard.

15.   He is a hometown hero, of sorts, a former LSU basketball All-American who climbed the corporate ladder to become president of Converse Inc., the shoe guys.

16.   How many hometown heroes have done well in New York early in their careers?

17.   I questioned this show of non-support for the hometown hero who is immortalized a couple of miles south of where we sat and buried just a few miles north.

18.   If it could happen to hometown hero Larry Mize, Howell figures it can happen to him, too.

19.   Included in that was a thunderous hammer dunk in the face of hometown hero David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs.

20.   Lee aired video of Cleveland kids raving about the hometown hero.