Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas G. ("Wrong-Way") Corrigan, who flew across the Atlantic (when he was supposed to be flying from New York to Los Angeles) in 1938, was discovered by the Saturday Evening Post test-piloting A26 attack bombers in California, still maintaining that his famed flight was just a fluke, still laughing as he said...
Wallace and Simons then both clamped down, and the game lost interest until, with two out in the top half of the eighth, Quonset sent Lawson in to pinch-hit for Simons. Lawson bounced a fluke single high over Wallace's head, and then Bart doubled into left field, Lawson going to third. When the ball was thrown in to Lutz, he wheeled and relayed the ball in the general direction of second base trying to catch Bart. The throw was wild, and the runner scored...
With these hustlers in the lineup, Cox's collection of castoffs won eight of their next ten games. They did astonishing things, such as scoring nine runs in one inning to snatch a game from the high & mighty Dodgers; then, just to prove that it was no fluke, scored ten runs in one inning two days later to trounce the Boston Braves...
...their contest with St. Paul's. The loss snapped the Jayvees' six game winning streak and gave the prepsters a clean sweep over all of the Big Three sextets. Hard hit by the manpower shortage, Harvard's skeleton squad fought their opponents to a standstill, but were overcome by fluke shots that somehow found their way into the net. St. Paul's well-balanced sextet built up an early 2-1 lead and held their ratio of superiority throughout...
...game itself the '46 booters definitely outclassed the visitors from Worcester as they scored in every period. The first tally was on a fluke kick by the Nichols fullback, who kicked the ball into his own goal. The next two scores were made by Roger Lazarus, only Crimson scorer in the Governor Dummer defeat...