Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John D. Lynch, who has added almost nothing except his presence and his cigar to the workings of Cambridge city government...
...genuine baseball miracle: an odd assortment of discarded has-beens and untested maybes who suddenly jelled into the only consistent team in the fiercely competitive National League. Third Baseman Gene Freese, traded away by four teams in three years, hit 26 homers for the Reds. Reserve Outfielder Jerry Lynch, woefully weak on defense, batted over .400 as a pinch hitter. Catcher Darrell Johnson, a Yankee castoff, hit a lusty .333. First Baseman Gordy Coleman, obtained from Cleveland, found Cincinnati's bandbox Crosley Field to his liking, collected 25 home runs...
True, the Yankees have the stars. The Reds have two shining stars, Frank Robinson and Vada Pinson, but moreover they abound in the unknown, scrappy, dirty player who will beat you any way he can. Gordy Coleman, Don Blasingame, Gene Freese, Eddie Kasko, Wally Post, and Jerry Lynch may not sound like much, but they win ball games...
Fred Hutchinson of the Reds plans to start Robinson in left, Pinson in center, and Lynch, Post or Gus Bell in right, unless the game is at Crosley Field, in which case Hutch will put Robinson in right, Pinson in center, and Lynch, Post of Bell in left. Isn't baseball fascinating...
...lonesome victory meant nothing, coming, as it did, at the end of the longest losing streak in modern baseball history (23 games). Through a rainfogged cabin window, Phillie Pitcher Frank Sullivan peered apprehensively out at the ramp, where a crowd of 250 damp Philadelphians stood like a lynch mob. "Get off the plane at one-minute intervals," Sullivan advised his mates, only half in jest. "That way, they can't get us all in one burst...