Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kaline's heroics would not have helped much if Mickey Lolich, rocked for three runs in the first inning when Orlando Cepeda smacked a two-run homer, hadn't blanked the Cardinals the rest...
Lolich, who hit a homer in pitching Detroit to its only previous victory in the second game, started the winning surge in the seventh with a single...
Liberal papers throughout the country righteously excoriated the cabal of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans who held up, and finally defeated, the appointments of Fortas and former congressman Homer Thornberry. Unfortunately, much less time was spent on the substantive issue of whether Fortas, and more particularly Thornberry, were good choices for the positions. That they were opposed by the Senate neanderthals, and that many of the attacks on Fortas were fatuous and petulant, seemed enough to make the case for their appointments airtight and inviolable...
Tiger pitcher Mickey Lolich did what super-star Denny McLain couldn't as he twirled a six hitter and blasted a home run in the Tiger romp. The homer was Lolich's first in the majors, and was one of three Tiger blasts during...
...with his bat for Denny to put the ball belt-high, where he likes it. Denny served it up, and Mick lined the ball into the upper deck for his 535th home run. As he rounded the bases, he moved past Jimmy Foxx into third place in the alltime homer derby, behind Babe Ruth (714) and Willie Mays (585). "Be sure to tell Denny thanks," said Mantle afterward. "Thanks for what?" asked McLain when he got the message. Then he grinned broadly and added: "I make mistakes all the time...