Word: hondo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rookie Hartung's home run the first time up did nothing to stop the fast-growing Hartung legend. About all anybody really knew about Clint Hartung was that he is an overgrown, 24-year-old farm boy from Hondo, Texas. On an Army Air Forces team last year, he had pitched and won 25 games, lost none, and had batted .567. In the story-slim days of spring training, that was enough for baseball writers. They seldom wrote a story of which Hartung was not the hero. One newsman broke down and confessed: "Hartung is human. He is, after...
...fact that the winning party was also a socialist party had its shock, too. Said Mayor J. A. Horger of Hondo, Tex. (pop. 2,500): "I was disappointed. I think they should have kept him in office. I don't favor this socialism and such." The New York Daily News, which has no love for socialists, interpreted it all as an unseemly British bender...