Word: gehrig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baseball's most famed "murderers' row": the 1927 New York Yankee line-up of Earle Combs, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri...
...Bobby Lowe of the Boston Nationals in 1894 and Lou Gehrig of the N.Y. Yankees...
...Chalk should know. He has run up a $10 million-plus fortune by making every dollar turn over many times-through borrowing. Son of a Russian immigrant shopkeeper, Chalk grew up in The Bronx (his neighbors were George and Ira Gershwin, and he fielded sandlot grounders batted by Lou Gehrig), rode the subways to New York University Law School ('31). With loans and his skimpy earnings as a young attorney, he bought Bronx apartments at Depression prices, later cashed in on World War II's real estate boom. Typical Chalk deal: in 1942 he bought the 16-story...
...usual, was crotchety Manager Casey Stengel. Some of his first stringers were ailing, among them slugging Centerfielder Mickey Mantle, but he had his long benchful of reserve power. Although his pitchers limped through midseason, they were back in top form. They were not the Yankees of Ruth and Gehrig, but they were heavy with power, and 8-to-5 favorites...
Such pre-game gamesmanship recalled the New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who pumped batting-practice home runs into the stands like grapeshot before the first World Series game of 1932. Demoralized by the sight, the goggle-eyed Chicago Cubs faded in four straight games. Similarly unnerved by news about the Sooners, the overrated Panthers never got started...