Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Game was a Yankee debacle. Starting Pitcher Don Larsen went into the second inning six runs in front, thanks to Berra's grand-slam home run. Incredibly, the big lead was not enough. The Dodgers' old men began to rattle hits all over the ballpark, capped by Duke Snider's three-run homer. Before the inning was over Brooklyn, too, had six runs and Larsen was taking a shower. Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' 27-game winner who seems constitutionally incapable of winning in the series, failed again, unhappily slouched off the field under the Yankees...
...Reese home from third after he walloped a resounding triple. Slaughter, his team behind once more, came to the plate with two men on and two out. He scowled at Pitcher Roger Craig, glared back across ten years to the fierce joy of that day in 1946 when he hit his last World Series home run (against Boston). Then he parked a 3-and-1 pitch in the right-field stands to break up the ballgame. The final score was Yanks 5, Dodgers 3, but the game belonged to Slaughter. "I'd be fibbing," he said, "if I didn...
...urge to travel hit Parrish early. By the time he graduated from high school in his native Decatur, Ill., he had hitchhiked through all the Eastern and Southern states. He thumbed his way to New York to study at the Columbia University School of Journalism, where he won a Pulitzer fellowship that gave him a year of third-class travel from the Arctic Circle to Spanish Morocco...
...enterprises-American Aviation Daily, Official Airline Guide, Who's Who in World Aviation, etc.-have moved four times into larger Washington, D.C. headquarters, set up five other U.S. offices. With Parrish holding almost two-thirds of its stock, the company grossed $2,000,000 last year, expects to hit...
...carry 2,500,000 tons more coal each year, thus provide more jobs for U.S. seamen besides helping the coal industry. Lewis, who will soon ask the Government for a second fleet of 50 ships, predicted that U.S. coal exports will rise 10% to 45 million tons this year, hit 100 million tons annually...