Word: gehrig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Yanks trailing 7-1, he hit another homer with two men on, to put his team back in the game. Three innings later he homered again, to win it. After the game, Joe Dugan, an old Yankee third baseman who used to play with Ruth and Gehrig, rushed into the pandemonium in the Yankee dressing room and planted a kiss on DiMaggio's forehead. "Just had to do it," Dugan explained, "I've never seen anybody who could surpass this guy." On the third day, Joe whomped homer No. 4 to confound...
...disease that killed Ballplayer Lou Gehrig...
...confused with an earlier Yankee Murderers' Row (Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel and Lazzeri), whose club banged out 158 home runs in 1927.**Last week, two other National League teams caught the fence-busting fever and broke out in a rash of home runs. In one game, the Stv Louis Cards and Pittsburgh Pirates hit ten between them, tying the major-league record...
When the New York Yankees slammed out 182 home runs during the 1936 season, it looked as if they had a record that would stay on the books for a long time. That year, the Yankees' "Murderers' Row"† included Lou Gehrig (49 homers), Joe DiMaggio (29), Bill Dickey (22), George Selkirk (18), Frankie Crosetti (15). This year, on the other side of the Harlem River, New York Giant fans are being treated to a show of fence-busting that is almost certain to overturn the Yankees' record. By this week, the Giants had banged...
...they were now favorites to win their first American League pennant in four years. On the Fourth of July, they were a very comfortable 7½ games ahead of their nearest rival. It was the kind of lead that the Yankees used to enjoy in the days of Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, but the 1947 Yankees got there by different methods. They no longer specialized in slaughtering the opposition with the home run and the big inning (the National Leaguers were doing that now). Instead, the Yankees relied upon timely hits, an occasional squeeze play, plenty...