Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates were taken to the sumptuous Dopolavoro clubhouse of the Air Force employes, and to the equally impressive railroaders' Dopolavoro club in Rome: 100 guest bedrooms, a theatre seating 1,500 persons, a library of 7,000 volumes, a restaurant, bar, poolroom, bocci-ball court, gymnasium. Also on view were "Thespis Cars," trucks and trailers designed to bring drama and opera to the masses. These rolling theatres are designed to play to 10,000 spectators at a time...
...greater diversification of products" in these two steel centres. To the steel trade, however, it meant that Big Steel, sniped at by non-union independents since it made a wage contract with C.I.O. and pinched by their price concessions had finally abandoned its long time policy of playing ball, was going to squeeze them a little, possibly gaining in competitive advantage something to make up for the price...
...game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid $1.10 (and the 3,000 bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money's worth, the umpire croaked "Play ball." The visiting team was the Cincinnati Reds, MacPhail's old boys, most of whom he himself had rounded up from the minor leagues...
...baseball's Hall of Fame four days before when he won a no-hit, no-run game against the Boston Bees in Cincinnati. Practically the whole of Midland Park, N. J. (his home town) was in the stands to greet him. Dodger Pitcher Max Butcher threw the first ball, and the fans settled in their seats...
...Brooklyn rooters began to twist their score cards. No Dodger had succeeded in getting a hit. Even hard-boiled sportswriters screamed "Come on, kid!" as the seventh inning began with young Vander Meer walking two batters. But Vander Meer, revolving through his elaborate windup and mixing his dazzling fast ball and his baffling curve, got out of that tight spot. In the ninth, young Vander Meer walked three more Dodgers. A tense silence settled over the stands as Manager Bill McKechnie, a smart manager of pitchers, strode out to the box and whispered in Vander Meer's ear. Regaining...