Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Conn, to defeat ancient rival Harvard for the 54th time in 104 meetings. ¶In the season's biggest trade, the seventh-place New York Giants swapped four players even with the St. Louis Cardinals, got a lift when Red Schoendienst, their new second baseman, hit a homer while Shortstop Al Dark and First Baseman Whitey Lockman were spoiling their debuts as Cards by making three errors...
...first baseman leads the league in home runs (17) and is second in hitting (.377). A fortnight ago he set a major-league record by hitting the ball into the stands in eight consecutive games, had to come out of the dugout for a curtain call after the last homer when delighted Pittsburgh fans raised a fuss that stopped the game cold. At 30 Long is one of the oldest Pirate regulars (average age of the regular lineup: 25). For a while it looked as if he would never make the majors. He bounced around eleven minor leagues, came...
...loud-and with fewer qualifications than usual-that this may be the year that tops Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60 home runs, and Mickey might be the lad to do it. Can he beat the Babe? This is certainly a season for shattering sports records, and homer-happy club owners have done their bit by pulling in their outfield fences. With such help and such a hot start (at week's end nine games ahead of Ruth's 1927 pace), Mantle looks like the man to cross the 60-homer barrier and set the sentimentalists...
Hart Brake Motel (Homer and Jethro; RCA Victor). The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie. "My room it was so small,'' one of them croaks, that "evertime I tried to smile my teeth would touch the wall." No more vulgar than the prototype...
...took the varsity ten innings to down Tufts, 11 to 7, on Friday. Repetto started, but poor fielding limited his effectiveness. The Crimson jumped to an early lead when Tom Bergantino belted a three-run homer to center in the second, and added a single run in the fifth and three in the sixth. But when Bob McGinnis relieved Reppetto in the sixth, the varsity had only a 7-6 edge, and Tufts tied it in the seventh. The Crimson threatened in the eight and ninth, but did not score until the tenth when Matt Botsford's three run home...