Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rookie-of-the-year (TIME, March 28), was leading the league. But the relatively unsung Coleman was runner-up. Moreover, the Yankees had a rookie first baseman, Dick Kryhoski, who was hitting .375, and a pair-of third basemen, Bobby Brown and Billy Johnson who were belting the ball...
...bitter afternoon for the New York Giants' Leo ("The Lip") Durocher. His old ball club, the Brooklyn Dodgers, was spraying Giant pitches into the far reaches of the Polo Grounds. Each time Durocher crossed to his third-base coaching box, visiting Brooklyn fans yowled and booed...
...play catch with his apartment janitor. But he had sublimated his ambition to be a baseball star into a desire to make $1,000,000 before he was 30. He also hoped one day to own the New York Yankees, or at least to throw out the first ball at an opening game. (He made...
...Godin walked with the bases loaded, and two more in the fourth on Godin's two-run double. The Crimson loaded the bases in the sixth and seventh but did not make a successful bid until the ninth, when the Columbia infield, which up to then had played errorless ball, faltered...
Colin McIntyre and John Carey were the men who accounted for the Crimson's six points. McIntyre took a shovel pass from Lew Travis after the latter had snared a loose ball on the Princeton five yard line, and bucked over with three Tigers hanging...