Word: homerun
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...loss to the American League, though, would hurt even more. In an era which has seen a growing trend toward specialization and an orgiastic over-emphasis on the homerun, Kaline is one of the few who can do everything brilliantly, one of the few genuinely exciting players in baseball. He has come back before. For baseball's sake we can only hope he will again...
...rookie pitcher, who threw the leagues' first no-hitter since 1958 against the Orioles Saturday, may not be a perfect specimen of the brash rookie of the great school of You Know Me Al, but he is close enough to it to provide welcome relief from the league's homerun treadmill to oblivion...
...rookie pitcher, who threw the leagues' first no-hitter since 1958 against the Orioles Saturday, may not be a perfect specimen of the brash rookie of the great school of You Know Me Al, but he is close enough to it to provide welcome relief from the league's homerun treadmill to oblivion...
...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...