Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil Ball, a big cold-storage man, dropped $500,000 in five years. Donald Barnes, shrewd finance-man, gave it a whirl, got out while the getting was good. In 1945 Coal-&-Iceman Dick Muckerman stepped in. Save for the wartime year 1944, when the Browns surprised everybody by winning their first pennant since the American League was organized in 1901, the threadbare Browns went from bad to worse. About a year ago, the Browns sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team...
...next day sees a hockey game against Princeton and a basketball game with Harvard. A girl's skiing contest at 10:30 a.m. will help you laugh off the morning-after. Frat parties resume at 9 p.m., if they ever stopped, and the Carnival Ball begins...
...expects that only four or five boys will help out next fall on the varsity, but points out that this factor will be out-balanced by the fact that only four of what he considers his first 30 ball players are graduating...
...Have a level swing, and keep your eye always on the ball...
...baffle the pitcher by miscellaneous extra movements before he throws the ball. Most of the time it only throws your...