Word: kluszewski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture a devoted fan when, in the 162nd game of the season, Mickey Mantle of the Yankees (or maybe Ted Kluszewski of the Los Angeles Angels) whales his 61st home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60, which has endured since 1927. He won't know whether to cheer or to shoot himself, and as he alternately chokes on and cries in his beer, he will curse the nouveau riche who made things...
...Baltimore, thousands of bumper stickers proclaimed "It can be done in '61" in six languages including Russian, but the Orioles lost to the Los Angeles Angels, 7-2, when White Sox Castoff Ted Kluszewski, who hit only five home runs all last season, walloped a pair in the opening game...
Series record and surpassed by two the previous record held by Ted Kluszewski and Yogi Berra. "I'm just doing the same old things in the same old way," said Richardson in wonderment. "But, whango, something seems to happen to the ball.'' All this was prelude to the seventh and deciding game. In the first inning, with one man on base, up to bat stepped a garrulous vagabond named Rocky Nelson, 35. In his 16-season baseball career, Nelson had played for six big-league teams and been consigned to the minors five times before finally catching...