Word: homering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dodgers against anyone else. I'll tell you one thing: Sandy Koufax is the greatest pitcher." After that, he lost me; he babbled on, and I just nodded my head. I finally dragged him off baseball, but we continued to watch the Series, and when Mudcat Grant hit a homer, Nixon almost chased the ball into the stands...
...instant replay. Minnesota Second Baseman Frank Quilici opened the third inning with a double, then Drysdale fell down trying to field a bunt, and by the time the Twins got bored, eleven men had batted and six had scored-three of them on Zoilo Versalles' 400-ft. homer into the leftfield bleachers. "I had bad command," Drysdale said afterward. But so, for that matter, did the Twins' Mudcat Grant. Each team collected ten hits; the difference was that Los Angeles left nine men on the bases. Final score...
...will retrench and dig in and start to go again." Whereupon the Giants went out and lost their third game in a row, 8-2, to the Milwaukee Braves - while the Dodgers were winning their seventh straight over St. Louis, 4-3. Next day, Willie Mays crashed his 50th homer, arid the Giants finally snapped out of their losing streak with a 7-5 victory over the Braves. It was a good thing they did. In Los Angeles, Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax shut out the Cardinals 2-0 and recorded his 356th strikeout of the season, breaking Bob Feller...
...Little League World Series, beating Canada 3 to 1 in the finals; at Williamsport, Pa. Pitcher Mike Roche allowed only three hits while striking out 14, and First Baseman Dale Misiek, the biggest player in the series (at 5 ft. 10 in., 180 Ibs.) cracked a two-run homer to provide the winning margin for the team from Windsor Locks, Conn...
...scholar, he converted the classics of seven languages into Greek. As a philosopher, he absorbed Bergson, Nietzsche, Buddha and Lenin, and formed a derivative, somewhat nihilistic creed that seemed to sentence man to hopelessness and Western civilization to death. As a poet, he added 33,333 poetic lines to Homer's Odyssey-three times the master's output-and then dared to call it a modern sequel to that epic from the dawn of Western thought...