Word: gehrig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stan Musial is tired," said St. Louis Manager Fred Hutchinson before a game with the Giants. Musial agreed. But he played anyway, hit two home runs and two singles as the Cards won, 8-0, and pushed his lifetime total of extra-base hits to 1,140. Only Lou Gehrig (1,190) and Babe Ruth (1,356) have hit more...
Died. Paul Bernard Krichell, 74, chief scout for 37 years for the New York Yankees, credited with discovering more baseball talent than any other man in history (he signed some 200 players including Lou Gehrig, Leo Durocher, Vic Raschi, Red Rolfe, Phil Rizzuto, Tony Lazzeri); after long illness; in New York City...
...issued eleven bases on balls, another series record). The game produced several other records. The Dodgers' six runs in the second inning, plus the Yankees' five, was a series mark for one inning. Duke Snider's second-inning home run put him right up with Lou Gehrig with a lifetime series total of ten four-baggers. Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges hit three for three, including two doubles that pushed the Dodgers' final score to 13 over the Yankees...
...delight of the scorekeeper-historians, their figures are already the foundation for endless argument. "The Babe got a break," says the man in the stands. "The opposition had to pitch to him. Gehrig was always on deck." The long-memoried fellow alongside demurs: "Look at the record. They walked the Babe 138 times in '27. He had only 540 at bats. Mantle has 413 with a fourth of the season left. And what about Berra? Do pitchers pass the Mick...
...ball a country mile for his seventh home run in seven consecutive games, a major-league record that broke the six-game mark held by the St. Louis Browns' Ken Williams, the Giants' "Long George" Kelly, Walker Cooper and Willie Mays, and the Yankees' Lou Gehrig...