Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ball...
...show that after April 11 meteorological conditions from Boston to Chicago will permit professional baseball to operate at a profit on summer playgrounds. On April 12, brass gongs will resound in eight enclosures, dapper umpires will brush eight white rubber slabs, 200,000 spectators will give anticipatory cry? "Play ball...
...same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade for Frank Francis Frisch, famed for speed, and James Joseph Ring; Tris E. Speaker, peerless ball-hawk, has laid aside Cleveland togs after eleven years, will strive in behalf of the Washington club; lesser luminaries, too numerous to catalogue, have shifted their paid allegiance from one organization to another. The shuffling process has caused predictors to wax prolific...
...Most of last year's team and the nucleus of the Freshman eleven are numbered in the squad, which has been working out daily on Soldiers Field under the tutelage of the new mentor, John Kershaw, of Lancaster, England. Kershaw has been drilling his squad principally on "heading" the ball, which he considers the most important department of the game...
Ketchum, although he passed three men, pitched excellent ball for so cold an afternoon, allowing but three hits and striking...