Word: homerun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the whole question was exemplified in the case of one of baseball's highest-paid players ($35,000 or more)- Tiger Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, homerun champion (41) and "most valuable" player of the American League last year. Outfielder Greenberg, 30, unmarried, no dependents, local draft No. 621, was due to be called in midseason. With him, Detroit was a formidable ball club; without him, it might be just average. In Manhattan last week, on his way to join the Tigers, Hank Greenberg spoke a marmoreal mouthful: ". . . When my number comes up, I'm going...