Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eddie Matthews smashed a two-run homer in the tenth inning today for a 7-5 Milwaukee victory over the New York Yankees that squared the World Series at two games each...
Turley appeared sharp in his tuneup for the Milwaukee Braves despite chill winds as he struck out eight and walked four. He allowed Billy Consolo's fourth homer in the second inning and Marty keough's sixth inning single...
Soon thereafter the Trib became lighter-if not brighter-by the departure of a dozen disgruntled top Trib hands, among them City Editors Joseph Herzberg and Fendall Yerxa, Pulitzer Prize-winning Correspondent Homer Bigart (who went to the Times). The revamping job turned the paper into a vamp, neither Times nor tabloid-nor Trib. By then the smallest of Manhattan's seven major dailies, the Herald Tribune earned the additional distinction of being the only morning paper that had a substantial weekday circulation drop: from a 1955 peak of 387,276 to 367,248 this year. And despite such...
...squat pro named Lawrence Peter Berra. All season Catcher Yogi has been floundering through a batting slump, never getting his average up much above his weight (192 Ibs.). But when he does hit, he still has his Yankee habit of making his hits count. His three-run homer in the eighth inning broke up the game, and the Yankees coasted home...
...Ford, his sore arm suddenly healthy, held the Sox to a 1-to-1 tie. Then, Enos stepped to the plate, took an effortless swing at the first pitch and sent the ball high and far into the right center-field stands. After Hank Bauer's third-inning homer, that was all the Yankees needed to win, 2-1, and head home with a 6½-game lead...