Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only Harvard player on the list, Nichols was named along with 14 others, who include backs Harry Agganis of Boston University, Homer Smith of Princeton, and Mitch Price of Columbia...
Fifth Game. In the fifth, Snider hit his second homer, scoring two teammates. The Yankees fired back with five runs; three of them rode in on Mize's third home run in three days. Manager Charley Dressen let Pitcher Carl Erskine stay in, and he pitched no-hit ball the rest of the way. In the eleventh, Hero Snider sliced a double that won for the Dodgers...
Sixth Game. After five scoreless innings, Snider again put Brooklyn ahead with a homer. Later Pitcher Raschi got a single that went far toward winning his own game, scoring Woodling. Mickey Mantle got into the home run party to make it 3-1 for the Yanks. Once again carrying his team, Duke Snider drove another ball over the fence, but there the rally died. The Yankees, winning 3-2, had seesawed back into the Series...
...replies (sample: "Is it true that you'll eat anything, coach?" "I'll eat anything that don't eat me first"). Hickman told tall stories about his hillbilly life in the Great Smokies, recited some folksy poetry. (His friends insist that Hickman actually prefers Homer and Tennyson to Edgar A. Guest and that, though he was born in the Tennessee hills, his forebears were lawyers and statesmen rather than barefoot mountain boys...
Died. James Capone, 60, white sheep brother of Chicago's Scarface Al, Ralph and Matt Capone, who went west after World War I, took the name Richard J. Hart, led a law-abiding life as Indian agent, later town marshal and justice of the peace in Homer, Neb.; of a heart attack; in Homer...