Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Babe Ruth? Against Boston's right-handed Bill Voiselle, Right-hander Kiner picked a fat curve and put his 195 Ibs. into an easy, carefully grooved swing. The ball cleared the left-field fence for home run No. 51. Three innings later, he put No. 52 in the same place. To Pittsburghers, who head for the exits the moment Kiner has taken his last turn at bat, even Babe Ruth's record mark of 60 (in 1927) still seemed within Kiner's reach...
Although the Boston Red Sox's slugging Ted Williams spends more time practicing before mirrors, Kiner is easily the most thorough and scientific hitter in the game today. In his room, he keeps a complete card-index file showing what type of ball each opposing pitcher has thrown him all season...
Quarterback Bob Russell handles the ball in Little's precision-timed winged T formation. Rossides' understudy last year, he suffered an ankle injury in practice and sat out the last six games. Under Rossides tutelage he had burgeoned into a first-rate passer. He also punts well and runs...
...Barney Shotton did his darndest to help the umpires out. He had his boys storming out of the dugout San Juan Hill style and once had his batter ready to hit before the Boston pitcher had even picked up the ball. On the field Captain Reese seized the ball at the conclusion of each play and presented it immediately to pitcher Newcombe, depriving the Dodger infielders of those happy interludes of flinging the ball at each other's heads which they enjoy so much...
There is an obscure baseball rule that no batter may deliberately make an out, so the Dodger hitters all assumed peculiar chop swings. Roy Campanella, who has not hit a ball on the ground since Bill Cunningham denounced the Red Sox, suddenly bounced to third. After Antonelli walked six foot five inches Newcombe on a series of high outside pitches, Reese proceeded to deliberately hit the most beautiful double play ball to shortstop Ryan that could be imagined, a soft line drive on one bounce...