Word: baggerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Incidently the freshmen seem to have found a way of getting the wheels turning at their smoker last night: they merely stood up and threw cheese, crackers and doughnuts at each other until Jimmy Foxx appeared, minus a bat or even a catcher's mask. The great first-bagger's personality did wonders and the riot was over in less time than it takes to say Col Charles R. Apted, '06. . . . The report, current in New York, that the Germans have mined the entire line of French border fortifications, amuses us for some queer reason. It seems so silly...
...Jayvees were limited to six hits by the effective mound work of Frank Shea of Worcester Academy, to lose 9-5 on Soldiers Field. Tittman and Louis Carr garnered doubles, while McTernen scored the only three-bagger of the afternoon...
...second half of that inning was a half-hour uproar. Critz was on first with one out when Bill Terry lashed a two-bagger into left field, putting Critz on third. Crowder prudently gave Ott a base on balls, to the noisy disgust of the bleachers. Then to the plate shambled a tall, stooped figure-"Lefty" O'Doul. An oldtime hero of the Pacific Coast League, in 1932 O'Doul was No. i batsman of the National League, but a 1933 slump had put him on the bench, to be brought forth only in a pinch like this...
...centre field. Centre Fielder Schulte raced for the fence. He reached as far into the $1 bleacher seats as he could. The falling ball ticked his glove, glanced away into the stand with Schulte sprawling after it. One of the umpires wanted to call it only a two-bagger but Mel Ott trotted around all four bases with the Giants' fourth run. ending the series as he began it, the perfect Hero...
Nevin again starred for the losers, driving in Thacher, who had reached first on a walk, with a three bagger in the second half of the ninth. Held scoreless up to this point, the Harvard players with a fighting spirit that had characterized the team earlier in the season, furnished for a large crowd of spectators the only thrills of the encounter. Gleason, the next man up, scored Nevin with a weak hit to the pitcher, whose fumble enabled the batter to reach first. The next man, Kiernan, advanced Gleason with a single to place runners on first and second...