Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 28--Ted Williams wrapped up his sixth American League batting championship with a closing day flurry--a double and homer in four trips--while his Boston teammate and rival Pete Runnels went hitless in four chances...
Williams' homer, a bases-empty blast in the seventh inning and his twenty-sixth of the season, broke a 4-4 tie and pushed the Red Sox to a 6-4 victory over the Washington Senators and sewed up third place for the Boston Club...
...Have Never . . ." The result was dramatic. Old Soldier Eisenhower exploded. "Ridiculous!" cried he. "I know nothing about this-but I'll find out!" Marveled Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart later: "I have never seen the President so angry...
...spring in a 100-mile radius to find rooms. Many visitors were up early in the morning to walk miles around Manhattan, pushing perambulators and politely peddling their quotas of the Watchtower and Awake! before hurrying off to the assembly grounds. "This is the grandest of news," said Nathan Homer Knorr, head of the Witnesses. "We are living at the end of this worry-filled, problem-racked, loveless old world. We want the new. We are eager to leave...
...turn up one rookie regular a year. The Giants have six rookies playing more or less regularly, and playing well. Cepeda, a good-humored Puerto Rican with a zest for clowning who addresses his teammates as "my boo-days," is hitting both for average (.311) and distance (19 homers, 59 runs batted in). Catcher Bob Schmidt shows power (12 homers) and ability to handle pitchers. Third Baseman Jim Davenport is a fielding fiend, tightens the once porous infield. Slugging Outfielders Leon Wagner (.343) and Willie Kirkland (8 homers) are taking up the hitting slack for Mays, and Outfielder Felipe Alou...