Giant Socks

One day last week a panting New York baseball fan, fearing that what he had just heard on the radio might have been another Orson Welles fantasy, telephoned the Columbia Broadcasting studios, asked if they really had broadcast a game between the New York Giants and the Cincinnati Reds. What he had heard: the feeble Giants, who have been flopping around in the second division of the National League all season, had just whammed out seven homeruns in three innings--five of them in one inning, three of them in succession--against the powerful, League-leading Cincinnati Reds.

No less astonished were the 7,000 spectators who were sitting in the stands at New York's Polo Grounds. They had never seen anything like that crazy fourth inning. Neither had anyone else--for no team in the history of major-league baseball had ever chalked up five homers in one inning.*

Besides setting a new record for homers in one inning, the fabulous Giants equalled the all-time mark of seven in a game, three in succession. Final score: Giants 17, Reds 3.

* Two clubs have succeeded in getting four: the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1894 (Just 45 years ago to the day), and the Chicago Cubs in 1930.

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