Word: strikeouts
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...Yanks grabbed Bob Turley, league strikeout king, and Don Larsen. They also acquired Billy Hunter to take over Phil Rizzuto's shortstop...
...Chicago, just 18 years after his major-league debut, Cleveland's Bob Feller scored his 2,511th strikeout, firmly fixing himself in third place in the alltime strikeout standings. Only Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators (3,497) and Cy Young (2,836), who played for Cleveland, St. Louis and Boston, struck out more men. In fourth place, behind Rapid Robert: the great Christy Matthewson, with...
...operatic Casey is not the Yankees' Casey Stengel but the Mudville hero of Ernest L. Thayer's famed old rhetorical war horse, Casey at the Bat, which builds up to one of the biggest letdowns in all literature-Casey's strikeout with...
...fifth inning, the 12,732 fans at Ebbets Field began buzzing about the possibility of seeing a no-hitter. Opening the eighth, with six more outs to go, Erskine racked up his only strikeout of the day-three straight strikes burned past the Cubs' hard-hitting (.294) First Baseman Dee Fondy. By then, the excited fans were cheering every strike, groaning at the crack of bat on ball...
...Previous record. 25 strikeouts by Clarence ("Hooks") lott, for Paragould in the Northeast Arkansas League in 1941. After two failures with the St. Louis Browns, lott finished his major-league career in 1947 with a 3-8 record with the New York Giants. Major-league strikeout record: 18, by Cleveland's Bob Feller...