Word: homeruns
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...first half of the seventh, the Quakers had added three more scores and were leading 6-4. With two men out in the "lucky seventh. Lupe walked, Gannett singled, and Grondahl smashed a homerun through the rightfielder who slipped. And the score stood 7-6 for the Mitchellmen...
...inning equaled an American League record, it was necessary to state both the number of bases and the manner in which they were scored. Conceivably a player could make two three-base hits and one two-base hit all in one inning, thus totaling eight bases without a homerun...
...Edward Segal settled for $25 his $1,000 suit against the American League Baseball Club because a ball batted by George Herman ("Babe") Ruth hit him at Yankee Stadium in 1934. To the defense that some might consider it an honor to be hit by the world's homerun king, Justice Lester Lazarus sniffed : "No doubt, but the plaintiff could not appreciate the honor, as he was knocked un conscious...
...Chicago errors, gamblers made them a 6-to-1 favorite. Needing three games in a row to win, the Cubs took the fifth, like the first a pitching duel between Warneke and Detroit's famed Arkansan, Schoolboy Rowe, 3-to-1, mainly on the strength of a homerun by their Right Fielder Chuck Klein, and the teams moved back to Detroit to end their business...
...wished, Manager Cochrane could have supported his second contention with his first baseman, Henry Benjamin Greenberg, who is probably the outstanding player on the Tigers this year, certainly the leading homerun hitter in both leagues and the ablest Jew in baseball. A New Yorker who learned to bat with a broomstick in side-street one-o'-cat games, he was offered a job with the Yankees in 1930, shrewdly refused it because he foresaw small chance of replacing First Baseman Lou Gehrig. He quit New York University at the end of his first semester to join the Tigers...