Word: balling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disrupted the flow of young ballplayers up through the minors eight years ago, not a single slugging first-baseman had reached the majors. The dearth of new catchers was just as serious. There wasn't a hard-hitting catcher in either league or one who could whip the ball down to second-base with the authority of a Bill Dickey or a Mickey Cochrane...
...whom shrewd baseball men were touting as the player to watch in 1949 was Cleveland's 25-year-old Negro centerfielder, Larry Doby. Speedster Doby showed plenty of promise last year until, toward the end of the season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...
...Durocher was willing to put a pricetag on Mize or almost anybody else if it would bring him pitching. There seemed to be no eager bidders. No one had any marketable pitchers, and burly old (36) Johnny Mize was a property of doubtful value. He could still slam the ball, but he had trouble covering ground in the field...
...like a contest between a canny, battle-weary old boxer and a wiry young puncher. The Argentines rode their ponies like gauchos at a festival, leaned spectacularly from their saddles to swipe at the ball. They led at the halfway point...
...Stockbroker Pedley, who lays aside his spectacles when he dons his polo togs, had long ago given up whoopdedo polo. But when things looked darkest, Pedley dribbled the ball almost beneath his pony's feet and drove it squarely between the uprights for two successive goals, to turn the tide. With less than one minute to play, the U.S. scored the clincher that beat the Argentines, 10-9. But the Argentine protest was allowed; the game didn't count...