Word: kiner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baseball history only four men-Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Hack Wilson and Hank Greenberg-had hit 50 home runs in one season. Last week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...
...season to bunt. He tried hitting to left field, and managed to poke three home runs over the left-field wall, but confessed, "It didn't feel natural." To make matters worse, Rival Joe DiMaggio was having a big season, and such talented johnny-come-latelies as Ralph Kiner and Jackie Robinson were making the headlines...
Whether or not Bankhead would bolster the Dodgers' sagging pitching staff might take some time to tell. In his 3⅓inning relief stint against the Pirates-on a day when Kiner & Co. really had their hitting shoes on-he gave up 10 hits and 8 runs. He couldn't ever do much worse than that, and he looked as though he could do quite a lot better. His batting, on the other hand, could not be improved on: his first time at bat, Bankhead fouled off several pitches, then banged a home run into the left field...