Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Game belonged to Maglie. Slaughter reached him for a single and then a brash youngster named Mickey Mantle clouted a two-run homer. Sal was magnificently unconcerned. The two last-minute victories with which he had ensured the Dodgers' pennant weighed heavily on his wrenched back. But he bent his wicked curve over the corners of the plate and he never made the same mistake twice. Slaughter calmly hit him three for five, but Sal struck out ten Yanks, stranded another nine on the bases. Behind him, the Dodgers piled up nine hits (including homers by Robinson...
...Pitcher Don Larsen went into the second inning six runs in front, thanks to Berra's grand-slam home run. Incredibly, the big lead was not enough. The Dodgers' old men began to rattle hits all over the ballpark, capped by Duke Snider's three-run homer. Before the inning was over Brooklyn, too, had six runs and Larsen was taking a shower. Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' 27-game winner who seems constitutionally incapable of winning in the series, failed again, unhappily slouched off the field under the Yankees' second-inning fusillade, later relieved...
Neither Nancy Homer nor any of her classmates will have to worry about losing her "individuality." For the nine previous winners, however, President Jordan's ruling will make no difference. If, indeed, they were typical Annex girls--and many think they weren't--those nine classes must have enjoyed fascinating careers at Radcliffe...
...think it would have been lots of fun to have had a Miss Radcliffe contest this year," Nancy M. Homer '60 commented the other...
...National League leaders wore each other out, the high-riding Yankees began their last Western trip of the year as if it were a vacation. Mickey Mantle's chance of hitting 60 home runs had died in a late-summer slump; Yogi Berra had already hit the 237th homer of his career and broken Gabby Hartnett's record for major-league catchers. There was nothing left to worry about but playing baseball. The Yanks played like champs...