Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After John Simourian had lined a lead-off single to left to open the home ninth, clean-up hitter Bob Hastings, tied for the team lead in runs batted in, came to the plate. Hastings had previously flied to deep center in the first, and blasted a 400-foot homer over the center fielder's head in the sixth. Hastings, though, was ordered to bunt, and successfully sacrificed Simourian to third...
...year ago, at Princeton, the Crimson baseball team tallied three runs on two squeeze bunts to pull out a 4-3 victory over a strong Tiger aggregation. The home nine had the brawn (a 340 foot, two-run homer) and the advantage of playing before a partisan crowd--1500 cheering fans--but the Crimson overcame these with strategy and a tighter defense...
...Denham Rouse was a Calcutta-born Englishman who became the most learned teacher of Greek and Latin in his time. For a quarter of a century he headed the Perse School in Cambridge, where he made certain that each boy left with a conversational competence in the languages of Homer and Cicero. When he died in 1950 at 86, he left behind him first-rate, down-to-earth translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad that virtually returned Homer's classics to the common man. Total sales in the U.S. alone: 1,000,000 copies...
Botsford hit a two-run homer the next day, Thursday, to pace the attack which defeated Virginia, 6 to 3. Ned Felton started and McGinnis finished up on the hill for the Crimson...
...BLACK AND THE RED, by Elliot Paul (277 pp.; Random House; $2.75), is a Homer Evans mystery by the author of The Mysterious Mickey Finn and Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre. It is for longtime Elliot Paul fans only; latecomers who are merely looking for a story are likely to bog down in the aggressive whimsy and the interminable dissertations on art, sex and French cooking...