Word: homerun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also probable that the average spectator at a ball game enjoys plenty of hitting and is bored by the old-fashioned "pitchers' battle." No one has ever yet booed a homerun and certainly the greatest crowd-getter in recent years has been Homerunner Ruth. The question raised against the "lively" ball seems only to be whether homeruns may not become too common. In a Brooklyn-Pittsburgh encounter lately, nine homeruns were hit in one afternoon...
...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
Howard stemmed the tide for an inning or so, but in the fifth, Notre Dame got on to his delivery with a devastating vengence. Every kind of hit, from a single to a homerun, came off the bats of the hard-hitting sluggers from Indiana. Howard Whitmore '29, the next Crimson twirler to see action, replaced Howard. He allowed only three hits in the last half of the game, although two more runs swelled the Notre Dame total...
...homerun in the ninth inning when the score was tied at one apiece broke up the game between the Harvard and Michigan diamond forces at Ann Arbor on Saturday, giving the Wolverines a 3 to 1 verdict over the Crimson nine...
...Homerun--Weintraub, Sacrifices--Prior 2, Lange. Stolen bases--Loos, Nebelung. Bases on balls--off Whitmore 3, off McAfee 2. Struck out--by McAfee 9, by Whitmore 3. Hit by pitcher--by Whitmore (Lange). Balk--Whitmore. Left on bases--Michigan 6, Harvard 4. Umpires--Green and Richardson...