Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stahlmen put together four bingles, a fielder's choice, and a double steal to account for two runs in the third inning and to all purposes won the ball game right there. Big Tom breezed along, mowing the Tigers down relentlessly, and the infield support behind him was just about air-tight...
Swede Linden, a converted outfielder, is holding forth at first at present, and inexperienced Sophomore Jack Orr, who didn't even play Freshmen ball, is at the keystone sack. Weak-hitting Ev Woodman has the call at short, and footballer Cottone is at third. Behind the bat the Indians have no worries when Captain Joe Urban is operating, but capable reserve backstops are scarce in Hanover...
Coach Andy Coakley has a pretty fair ball club in New York this year representing the Blue of Columbia University, but the pitching is woefully weak and will have to be spread over the schedule very sparingly. And even the most optimistic observer would not rate the Lions as a real swash-buckling crew of sluggers, needing only fair twirling to win games...
...chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball as "the set of dishes." A pitcher easy for a particular batter to hit is that batter's "cousin." A hard hitter "lays the wood to it." Base runners are "ducks on the pond...
...throwing wing was "loose as gooseberries" or any other more dramatic announcement. But the newsmen could add all that. They had heard enough--the highest authority in the land had commented on the news the land was waiting for. His arm was ready to loss in the first ball of today's game in Griffith Stadium, opening the 1939 major league baseball season...