Word: homer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This hit should have been no more than a double, but Boulris got the extra base by barreling into third baseman Tom Johnson, dislodging the ball from his glove and Johnson from the ball game, badly bruised. Boulris added the other run on a long homer through the right-centerfield gap in the eighth...
...Boston's lead lasted less than five minutes. The Giants' Utility Infielder Ed Bressoud led off with a home run. Outfielder Willie Mays hit a triple to deepest center field. First Baseman Orlando Cepeda walloped a 450-ft. home run, and Outfielder Jackie Brandt followed with another homer-all off Ike Delock, Boston's winningest pitcher last year. In his box behind third base, the Giants' President Horace Stoneham smiled broadly. "This is a real team," he said. "We'll be there all the way this season, and if we win it, there...
...National League, the San Francisco Giants trounced the Cardinals, 6 to 3, to take a clean sweep of the three game series and first place in the league. The Los Angeles Dodgers, sparked by Don Demeter's two-run homer in the seventh inning, defeated Chicago's Clubs...
...other game yesterday, Frank Robinson's two-run homer and Bob Purkey's six-hit pitching sparked Cincinnati to a 4-1 upset over pennant-hopeful Pittsburgh...
...Spirit and Nature, Christian and Pagan fight to the finish on the vast stage of the unbroken prairie. The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage. In his saddlebags he carries a new mythology, an American Odyssey that is waiting for its Homer. And the theme of the epic, hidden beneath the circus glitter of the perennial Wild West show, is the immortal theme of every hero myth: man's endless search for the meaning of his life...