Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seldom got the fever so acutely or fallen so wildly in love with one team. The Giants' astounding last-second playoff victory over Brooklyn threatened to make the World Series itself an anticlimax. But it also captured the nation's imagination, and when the Giants' Monte Irvin stole home in the first inning of the first game (see SPORT), the Series was suddenly exciting...
...last of the ninth inning the Giants were trailing, 4 to 1. Alvin Dark singled off big Don Newcombe, and so did Mueller, sending Dark to third. Monte Irvin, leading hiter on the Giant squad, popped out, but Whitey Lockman doubled to score Dark and put the tying run on bose...
Team: Brooklyn (by 5½ games) Pitcher: Roe, Brooklyn (19-2) Batter: Musial, St. Louis (.367) Runs Batted In: Irvin, New York (103) Home Runs: Kiner, Pittsburgh...
Down in High Shoals, Ga. (pop. 217), a 26-year-old housewife named Mrs. Irvin H. McGuire had paid no attention whatever to all this foofaraw. She did not even see the General Mills ad until June 18, the closing day of the contest. Just for fun, she tore out the blank, dashed off the required completion to the sentence "I like Wheaties because . . ." She forgot all about it (including what she wrote) until a General Mills man knocked at the door. His very name, Golden Aurelius Pirkle, bespoke good fortune. Said he: "You have...
...series, the Giants served notice that they cannot be counted out quite yet. In the first game the Giants finally beat Brooklyn Pitcher Preacher Roe (after he had won ten straight), 4-0. The Dodgers exploded in the second, 10-4. In the rubber game, Giant Outfielder Monte Irvin drove in four runs with two homers, beat the Dodgers almost singlehanded...