Word: homerun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jotham Johnson inspired the in the second with a homerun, but the effect was . Phil Bernstein opened the half of the inning with a and Curly Combs picked up the six RBIs by hitting him home. moved over to third on a couple choice plays, and Dick out the home team ahead with a sacrifice...
...Breed. Yesterday's sports sections bristled with evasions of perfectly useful words: four-ply wallop for homerun, apple for baseball, henhouse hoist for foul ball. When athletes were injured, claret flowed, not blood. On one occasion, the Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward, outraged at receipt of a story in which some ballplayer "belted" a homerun, whipped off his own belt, waved it before the eyes of the transgressor, and bellowed: "Did you ever see anyone hit a baseball with one of these...