Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both leagues, 1948 had been a season in which the quantity of excitement outweighed the quality of play. The home-run mark was never threatened; American League pitchers set a new record for bases on balls (5,045), and one outfielder allowed himself to be hit on the head by a fly ball he was supposed to catch. Baseball was still showing the interfering effects of World War II: not enough good young recruits had come up through the minor leagues to replace fading oldtimers...
...sights of baseball is watching DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without a backward look glide to the spot where the ball is coming down, swing around casually and let the ball fall into his glove. Like all champions, he makes it look too easy. "It's just getting the jump on the ball...
...road, a reverent roar greets him as he strides to the plate. Joe tells himself that the pitchers should be more worried than he is, and they usually are. He is a cool, relaxed figure, his bat held high and motionless, as he waits for the ball to zip in from the pitcher's box, 60 ft. away, at something like 91 m.p.h...
...When a Cambridge tackler was flattened, he had the un-Harvard discourtesy to bounce up and go flatten the guy with the ball." By exhibiting consistently fine down field blocking, individual tackling, and ground defenses as a whole, the attack of a very strong team was rendered pointless. Art Valpey put it another way: "When they turned the corner, they could taste...
...back to this brass ring--it was bought in Italy. Now in case you aren't up on your baseball statistics, it's a fact that nine out of ten times the hidden ball play has worked, it has been pulled by the Italians. Freat actors, the Italians. Great actors, those Italians, And this ring reminds me of an extra great actor Harold Wit '29 and I met in Rome...