Word: elston
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Covington sent Elston Howard deep into left with the wind helping the ball but the Yankee outfielder caught his long drive. Del Crandall, a Duren strikeout victim on three pitches in the eighth, bounded a high hopper to short center for a single...
Stengel hinted he might not start Bauer, who he said had a slight wrist injury. However, it was not so much the injury as an attempt to find a place for Elston Howard, his catcher-outfielder...
...powering the ball past the hitters. Farrell's earned-run average (2.59) is third best in the league, and the big (6 ft. 3 in., 192 lbs.) righthander has saved nine games for the seventh-place Phillies. But for sheer speed, Duren has the edge. Says Yankee Catcher Elston Howard: "They are talking about Farrell now, and I've hit against him too, but Duren's faster. He's got the fastest ball I ever caught or saw, and that includes Herb Score...
...hits squirted about the landscape while the Yankees belittled the Braves, 12-3. The ten innings of the fourth game were a drill in aerial photography as four crucial home runs traveled the fences-Hank Aaron's three-runner and Frank Torre's in the fourth; Yankee Elston Howard's two-out, full-count game-tying hit in the ninth, and Eddie Mathews' great big fat one in the tenth. That won it for the Braves, 7 to 5, and bought everyone-ballplayers, umpires, sportswriters and TVmen-a return trip ticket to New York...
Trailing 4-1 with two out and nobody on base in the ninth, the Yankees had bounced back to tie the score on Elston Howard's three-run homer. The Yankees forged ahead in the top of the tenth on Hank Bauer's triple, following an infield single by Tony Kubek...