Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About the time the major league teams are finishing their spring training and getting ready to head north, Harvard leaves Soldiers Field for a week's visit to sundry southern baseball diamonds. This is the annual spring trip which every year strikes fear into the hearts of Crimson ball players and coaches...
What Stuffy needs more than anything else -- except possibly more time -- is pitchers. Godin, the veteran righthander from Ohio, seems headed for a great season in his third year of varsity ball. He did some pitching for the Great Lakes nine which Bobby Feller managed, although Denny Galehouse did most of the hurling...
...International League, where he played center eld as if he owned it, peppered the pitching for a .340 batting average, and hit 30 home runs. When the Tigers brought him into Briggs Stadium at the tag end of last season, Johnny drew a bead on the first big league ball ever pitched to him and sent it sailing 340 feet into the left-field stands...
...Dream Girl. The weather was good, no ball games, no dances, and, believe me, no business for us ... Walkouts galore! . . . Nasty remarks ... I ran and hid when they started coming...
Last month I had it good. I was running down at Sunshine Park in Florida and it was nice and warm. Twice a week they'd take me out to the beach and gallop me up and down in the surf. So I played ball with them. I picked up two seconds and a third and then won three...