31.   The big blow was a grand slam by Julio Franco in the fifth inning.

32.   The big blow was a Thomson home run off Branca.

33.   The big blow was a three-run homer by Greg Vaughn on a belt-high, hanging slider by Rangers starter Bobby Witt.

34.   The biggest blow was from Bank of Boston Corp., which is buying neighboring BayBanks Inc.

35.   The big blow was a grand slam by White Sox designated hitter Frank Thomas in the fifth inning that turned a close game into a rout.

36.   The biggest blow was the fall in the price of copper.

37.   The big blow was a three-run homer by Detroit catcher John Flaherty that came after Bobby Witt had walked two batters.

38.   The big blows early were back-to-back home runs by Dean Palmer and Ivan Rodriguez in the second inning off rookie pitcher Brad Radke.

39.   The biggest blow was the collapse of what President Ronald Reagan called the Evil Empire, which deprived red-blooded American mercenaries of proxy wars around the Third World.

40.   The blow is meant to be psychologically devastating.