Word: tracewski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like 'High School Harry,' but that's the case." In one game against the second-place Cleveland Indians last week, Northrup forgot his aching knee long enough to clout a brace of grand-slam homers and tie a big-league record.* In another, it was Dick Tracewski, a .170 batter, who hit a game-winning homer to beat the Indians 4-1. "Now I have nothing to look forward to for the rest of the year," said Tracewski with the coyness of a contender. Nothing, of course, but that World Series check...
Perhaps the best explanation for the result was the obvious fact the Dodgers played like the Yankees who so frequently had defeated them in the past. Only once--on the next to last play when Tracewski dropped the toss from Wills--did the Dodgers play in character. And the Yankees resembled the Bums of Flatbush in many respects, even sounding like them when Mantle told reporters "I still think we have a better team--wait until next year...
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