Word: meusel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Cards had a seventh-inning lead, 3-2, but the Yankees had loaded the bases with two out. Lou Gehrig was on first, Bob Meusel on second, Earle Combs on third, and slugging Tony Lazzeri was up. Pete ambled sleepily to the mound, took a couple of warm-up throws and struck Lazzeri out on three pitches, went on to save the St. Louis lead and win the World Championship. Later, Pete reminisced about his second pitch to Lazzeri, which Lazzeri had hit whistling down the third-base line-barely foul. Said he: "A foot made the difference between being...