Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six weeks of darting around in the dusty gloom of Briggs Cage, three score and ten assorted baseball and lacrosse players surged out onto soggy Soldiers Field yesterday and threw the ball around...
...Phoenix, Ariz., 54-year-old Walter ("Dutch") Reuther, great southpaw pitcher of the 1920s, marched out to the mound. His assignment: to make a pitcher out of the New York Giants' young Clint Hartung, who could put plenty of speed on a ball but not a wrinkle of a curve. Just a year ago in spring training, Hartung (then an outfielder) was hailed as the most promising rookie of the year; but when it became apparent early in the season that he couldn't catch a fly-ball, Hartung was converted into a pitcher. He wasn...
Rounding out the other two spots in the infield will be either Tom Sullivan, Myles Huntington, or Pete Petrillo at second, and Ernie Maninilo or John Goldsmith, who played Freshman ball last year, at short stop...
...finally gets out from under the nets in the Cage and onto Soldiers Field for some real practice, the hitting department shouldn't be too weak. Walt Coulson, who led the team last season and was second in the league, is back, and the entire squad is meeting the ball squarely in the batting sessions down in the cage...
Valpey has said that he will use the Crisler system of deception rather than pile-driving, with the quarterback doing the blocking. The emphasis on ball-handling rather than driving through with sheer power is particularly suited to the present predominance of light Crimson backs...