Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept pecking away at the win bag, but never seemed quite able to beat the Yankees when it counted most. In Cleveland, the World Champion Indians were still trying to figure out how they happened to be trailing by six games (after a bootstrap pull-up from seventh to second place). But nothing matched the Boston Red Sox's consternation; the Yankees were calling them "cousin" after walloping them in five games...
...surprising fact was that 25,932 people did pay to get in to watch the scramble for Joe Louis' abandoned heavyweight crown. They were sorry. For six rounds hardly a blow was struck-except a couple of low ones for which the referee cautioned Charles. In the seventh, after Charles had fallen down, purely by accident, he scrambled to his feet in a mild huff and let go a pair of rights & lefts that staggered Walcott and had him on the verge of going down. With the crowd calling for the kill, Charles suddenly slowed up his attack...
Iben, Ioko, Jr. of 201 West Bradley Street, Champaign; Champaign Senior High. Moffet, Hugh Lamson of 735 East Second Avenue, Monmouth; Monmouth High. Ocheltree, Richard Lawrence of 838 South Glenwood Street, Springfield; Springfield High. Olson, Frank Albert of 80 South Seventh Avenue, La Grange; Lyons Township High, La Grange...
...winners' third and final run came in the seventh, James walked, was sacrificed to second, and scored on a single to left by Fitzgerald...
Goodyear held Harvard to singles in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth innings while the Crimson touched him for two singles in the ninth. The visitors loaded the bases in the fifth and had two man on in the seventh only to have popups end the rally. There was no Chip Gannon to whack a homer this year and Godin, though adequate, was not sparkling. He struck out five to make the new EIBL strikeout record...