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Terry Cannon, who created a waggish alternative to the Baseball Hall of Fame with artifacts like a cigar partly smoked by Babe Ruth and inductees like Dock Ellis, who claimed to have pitched a no-hitter on LSD, died on Aug. 1 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 66.




His Baseball Reliquary collects quirky artifacts and honors people who wouldn’t ordinarily be elected to the more august Baseball Hall of Fame.

紐約時報的訃聞都會寫死因；His wife, Mary (McKenzie) Cannon, said the cause was bile duct cancer.他的妻子瑪麗（McKenzie）Cannon說，原因是膽管癌。

hitter

noun [ C ]

UK 

 /ˈhɪt.ər/ US 

 /ˈhɪt̬.ɚ/

in baseball, the player whose turn it is to hit the ball

擊球手，打擊手（棒球中輪到擊球的球員）

Davis is expected to see action primarily as a designated hitter (= a player who regularly hits instead of another player, usually instead of the pitcher, each time it is the other player's turn to hit).大衛斯在比賽中主要擔任指定打擊手（即每次輪到其他選手擊球時，他代為擊球）。

In the seventh inning, the manager inserted Trammell as a pinch hitter (= a player who hits instead of another player after the other player has appeared in the game).在第七回合中，主教練把拉梅爾作為替代打擊手派上場。

big hitter

noun [ C ]

UK 

 /ˌbɪɡ ˈhɪt.ər/ US 

 /ˌbɪɡ ˈhɪt̬.ɚ/

an important and influential person or thing (= one with a lot of influence), especially of their particular type

（尤指某類）要人，重要的事情

The big hitters in the cast include Michael Caine and Ewan McGregor.演員陣容中的大牌人物有米高‧凱恩和尤安‧麥格雷戈。

waggish

adjective   old-fashioned informal UK 

 /ˈwæɡ.ɪʃ/ US 

 /ˈwæɡ.ɪʃ/

saying humorous things

詼諧的，幽默的

A reliquary is a container for relics.

august

adjective

   formal

UK 

 /ɔːˈɡʌst/ US 

 /ɑːˈɡʌst/

having great importance and especially of the highest social class

（尤指因社會地位高而）威嚴的，令人敬畏的

the society's august patron, the Duke of Norfolk該學會德高望重的贊助人諾福克公爵