Terence Moore  Rare feats have been common in 2012  Moore: Rare
feats have been common in '12  Rare feats have been common in
2012 In 1977, during my first year working for a major
newspaper, an old-timer for the Cincinnati Enquirer named Bill
Ford pulled me aside in the sports department to mention why he
thought baseball was the only game sprinkled with pixie dust.
"It's been around a long time, but you have the chance to see
something totally amazing whenever you go to the ballpark," Ford
said, in his typically raspy voice, while reflecting on decades
of covering Reds players from Ewell Blackwell to Joe Nuxhall to
Johnny Bench.  Later that day at Riverfront Stadium, I saw
Willie McCovey smash a solo home run to right field for his San
Francisco Giants against the Reds, and I emphasize the word
"smash." I also saw McCovey rip a grand slam that threatened to
tear through the stadium walls along the way to the other side
of the Ohio River.  Both homers came in the sixth inning.  Until
that moment, no player