Word: avila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Batter: Avila, Cleveland...
...field, injury-hobbled Al Rosen has moved between first and third with ease; Negro Al Smith has switched from benchwarmer to one of the hottest out fielders around; Veteran Hank Majeski, 37, stepped in for Bobby Avila and batted a resounding .350. Whenever a regular smoldered, his substitute caught fire...
...Castile is the country which gave Spain its greatest queen, Isabella, its ideal knight, the Cid, and its mystic saint, St. Theresa of Avila. Christopher Columbus died there, broken and disappointed. Castilians, who manage to scratch a living from the harsh earth, are a tough, grave and proud people. They speak the purest Spanish of Spain. The climate is "nine months of winter, three of hell." The land is a windswept steppe, almost a desert. "The most magnificent monotony in the whole world," says Sacheverell Sitwell. It has been said of Spain that it seems more a part of Africa...
CONVERSATION IN AVILA...
...ball steams in, his hips swing in a fast little shake, his left leg lifts for a quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby Avila. (Average .340, 14 home runs, 55 runs batted in.) If the Rosen bat keeps coming through in the clutch for the second half of the season, the Indians may well be the team that breaks the Yankees' long lease (five in a row) on the American League pennant...