Word: balata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocket ball"-a buna-S core instead of last year's apathetic balata-may enliven hitting. A Cleveland Indian who last season batted .222 tried the ball at the Lafayette, Ind. training camp last week, promptly hit a home run. "If the cover was any tighter," reported Manager Lou Boudreau, "it would be a golf ball...