Word: lazzeri
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...Anthony Lazzeri, present second baseman for the New York Yankees, hit 60 home runs in the Pacific Coast League in 1925; but the League plays a 200-game season...
...originally by the New York Yankees' Tony Lazzeri in 1936 and shared by four other players, including, remarkably enough, a pitcher: Tony Cloninger, currently of the Cincinnati Reds...
...after another, like shots from a Roman candle, the balls soared over the outfield fences. When the first game's batting practice was over, the slugging New York Yankees of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri had turned the onlooking Pittsburgh Pirates into a band of idolatrous sand loiters. After that, the Yankees went on to win the 1927 World Series in four straight games. Until 1960, it was Pittsburgh's last pennant...
...Baseball's most famed "murderers' row": the 1927 New York Yankee line-up of Earle Combs, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri...
...Series, a Yankee hit a ball into the left-field bleachers. It was foul by one foot. A home run would have won the Series, but Grover Cleveland Alexander went on to strike out Tony Lazzeri and become "the courageous old man" who fought off a hangover to save the Series for the Cardinals...