Word: swooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last two games were carnage incarnate. The Yankees scored 20 runs on 26 hits, including seven doubles, a triple and two home runs (by Reserve Outfielders Hector Lopez and John Blanchard). The Reds, on the other hand, continued to swoon at the very sight of Yankee pitching. Outfielders Vada Pinson (.343 season average) and Frank Robinson (.323) managed only five hits between them in five games. Poker-faced Pitcher Ford extended his string of scoreless World Series innings to 32, and broke Babe Ruth's favorite record. For a team that had every right to crow, the Yankees were...
...being an issue, do not be fooled. Religion is the issue in this campaign. Instead of being garbed in a brown derby with a Bowery twang, it comes in a Brooks Brothers suit, clipped accents, and a Pepsodent smile that causes old women and bobby-soxers to swoon and mouth inanities...