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Against Passeau's sinkers and sliders, nary a Tiger reached second base. For the first time in 39 years, the World Series had a one-hitter. Score: Chicago 3, Detroit...
Though Newhouser's Tiger-mates lost balls in the sun and threw late to the wrong bases, Lefty Hal never wavered. Big Hank belted three two-baggers. Score: Detroit 8, Chicago...
Trucks lasted four innings, was followed by four Tiger pitchers. Big Hank's second homer of the series evened the score in the eighth inning. Passeau lasted six, Wyse one; Borowy was the fourth Cub hurler, and the winner-after 28 hits and five errors in twelve innings, the longest World Series game on record (3 hrs. 28 min) Score: Chicago 8, Detroit...
Irishman with a Combination. Nothing mattered much after that. Detroit split the next day's doubleheader. Washington, with only six games left to play, was a gloomy four games back in the lost column. Any combination of six, either Tiger wins (out of nine to play) or Senator losses, would do the trick...
Asked if he would commit harakiri, Yamashita grinned and shook his close-cropped head: "Hara-kiri? No, no harakiri." A U.S. soldier who had helped establish contact with Japan's ferocious "Tiger of Malaya" conferred on him a new nick name: "The Gopher of Luzon...