Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yankee Stadium. On his first time in at the plate, Joe DiMaggio struck out. Then Pitcher Allie Reynolds walked three Red Sox in a row and Relief Pitcher Joe Page walked two more. By the time the hitting-and-walking uprising was put down, the Red Sox were four runs ahead. His third time up, Joe DiMaggio doubled; Slowly, the Yankees began to nibble away at the Red Sox lead. Left-hander Page, getting a grip on himself, said: "Whenever I got a little tired, I looked at that guy [DiMaggio] and said to myself, 'If he can play...
...late summer, at least three blue-blooded young horses were running nose-and-nose for the two-year-old championship. The best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only once-and that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga in August, a colt named Middle-ground outran everything in sight, and in the Midwest a streak of bay lightning known as Curtice was winning again & again. According to custom, the three of them should have had it out last week in the Belmont Futurity, the race that decides the juvenile...
...additional sixteenth of a mile to win by almost a length from Calumet Farm's highly regarded Theory. In name, if not in fact, the colt that had won a mere $7,250 before last week (Futurity value to the winner: $87,585) was the champion U.S. two-year...
...guides had to lower him 1,000 feet on ropes. Then he had to walk two miles to a hotel. On the way, Alpine enthusiast Smiley bought a picture postcard "so as to remember the place...
...That was two years ago. The Texas and Pacific's 34-voice chorus sang it, but Tennessee authorities refused to spring Composer Grandstaff long enough to come and hear it. Last week, with a head of pressure built up for a centennial celebration, Big Spring was doing better by its favorite composer...