LOU GEHRIG'S FOUR HOMERS
"The name Lou Gehrig will be found on virtually every All-Time All-Star baseball team and one of his outstanding feats of slugging was accomplished against the Philadelphia Athletics on June 3, 1932. For it was on that day in Shibe Park that Gehrig blasted four baseballs out of Shibe Park for a quartet of home runs- the first time that had been accomplished since 1896.
Three times Big George Earnshaw was the victim of Gehrig's dynamite-laden bat. In the seventh, Larrupin' Lou teed off on LeRoy Mahaffey to tie the score at 10-10 and make American League history. The Yankees finally won the game, 20-13, in as weird and free-hitting a ball game as ever was played in the American League."
-1948 Swell Sport Thrills No. 14
BILL DICKEY'S LAST HOME RUN
"The St. Louis Cardinals had drubbed the Yankees 4 games to 1 in the 1942 World Series. Now, in 1943, the two teams met again. The Series stood at 3 games to 1 in favor of the Yankees. Another victory would reverse last year's defeat. But big Mort Cooper, who had beaten the Yanks for the Cardinals' sole victory thus far, was pitted against them.
For five innings Cooper was locked in a scoreless pitching duel with Spud Chandler. Two were out in the Yankee sixth. Charlie Keller was on first when Bill Dickey came to bat. Cooper reared back and pitched a high, fast one. Dickey swung his bat around and timed it perfectly.
It was a home run- Bill Dickey's last major league home run- and it won a World Series for the Yankees."
-1948 Swell Sport Thrills No. 6
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