The recession has hit especially hard in California, home of the world's eighth largest economy and one out of eight Americans.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

But someone who hit a home run or hit it out of the park did something extremely well.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

For weeks during the playing season, Tom hit a home run in every game the team played.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

His first hit record was "Take Me Home,Country Roads" in nineteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

He hit more home runs than any other baseball player.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

Such a hit is called a home run.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

The title came in the first year of the Yankees' new Japan's Hideki Matsui was voted the Series' Most Valuable Player after he hit 615 with three home runs and eight runs batted in (RBI), including a World Series record-tying 6-RBI performance in Game 6.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24