Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson batting power, dormant Monday when the Elis took the first game of the series 2 to 1, burst forth with a total of 15 hits. John White and Benny Akillian led the attack with three hits apiece, with White's total including a three-run homer in the third...
...pavilion's better half was devoted to John Marin, a wry, shy old crow of a man who paints nature as knowingly as Winslow Homer and with even greater freedom (TIME, Jan. 9). As Washington's Duncan Phillips put it in the exhibition catalogue, Marin "is one of the most gifted and important painters since Cezanne and perhaps the best of all masters of watercolor. An individualist and mostly self-taught and indifferent to theories, he sought at the outset of his career for abbreviated personal symbols of color and line-a green triangle for a pine...
...When the Oxford Dodgers went in for the second time, however, they provided the real excitement of the day, for they managed to make all their bases 'loaded,' and then one of their players hit a beautiful 'homer.' As an American woman said: 'He fair picklel that ball...
Crosby, who had earlier belted a 350-foot homer out of the park with two men on, got one out, but hit the second man to face him, putting the winning run on first base. But Bob Brooks, the next batter, hit a drive to left that Ben Akillian was able to snare. Akillian's toss to second baseman Tom Cavanaugh was in time to double Carl Giurrana and end the game...
With one out and two men on in the top of the tenth, shortstop Johnny White of the Crimson caught hold of a fast ball and poled a tremendous homer to dead center field for the winning three runs. A half inning earlier, the Engineers had pushed across two runs after two were out to overcome a 4 to 2 deficit and tie the score...